CN109375787B

CN109375787B - Server

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Publication number: CN109375787B
Application number: CN201811196622.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 野末卓
Original assignee: SunFlare Co Ltd
Current assignee: SunFlare Co Ltd
Priority date: 2013-10-23
Filing date: 2014-10-06
Publication date: 2022-05-17
Anticipated expiration: 2034-10-06
Also published as: US10503838B2; JP2015082216A; US20190065483A1; US20190065481A1; US10474759B2; CN109375787A; CN106445925A; US20190065482A1; CN106445926B; US10318645B2; US20190065484A1; WO2015060116A1; WO2015060116A4; CN106445925B; US20190065480A1; CN105683948A; US10108609B2; US10474761B2; US20160267074A1; CN105683948B

Abstract

The invention provides a server. The server and a plurality of clients capable of communicating via a communication line, the plurality of clients having storage means for storing at least an original sentence included in an original sentence to be translated and a translation word corresponding to the original sentence, the server comprising: an individual registration information storage unit; an original text storage unit; a translation storage unit; a corresponding translation retrieval storage unit; an individual translation retrieval unit; a similarity and difference judging unit; and a display information creating unit that, when the dissimilarity determining unit determines that there is a different translation among the plurality of existing individual translations, creates, on a display screen of a predetermined client among the plurality of clients, at least one of display information for displaying the newly registered specific original sentence and a plurality of different individual translations corresponding to the newly registered specific original sentence, and display information for displaying the stored specific original sentence and the corresponding translation.

Description

Server

The present application is a divisional application of an invention patent application (application No. 201610565958.4) with original application No. 201480058127.7(PCT/JP2014/076732) (application date: 2014, 10/6, and the title "translation assistance system, confirmation control method of translation approval application, server, client, and control method thereof").

[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device

The present invention relates to a server, and more particularly, to a server for performing parallel translation operations by a plurality of translators.

[ background of the invention ]

Heretofore, a translation assisting system has been known: when performing division translation by a plurality of translators, a recognition mark for prohibiting translation of a term is added to the term in an original text registered in a term dictionary, and an editor replaces an untranslated term with a translated term in a final stage of a translation operation using the term dictionary, thereby improving the translation speed and unifying the translated terms (patent document 1).

Furthermore, a method is known in which: in the mechanical translation system, when a translated word of a translation corresponding to a vocabulary entry satisfies a specific correspondence condition, the translated word is replaced with a replacement translated word to unify the translated words (patent document 2).

[ Prior art documents ]

[ patent document ]

[ patent document 1] Japanese patent laid-open No. 5-324716

[ patent document 2] Japanese patent laid-open publication No. 2011-210194

[ summary of the invention ]

[ problem to be solved by the invention ]

However, according to the technique of patent document 1, since there is a possibility that a large number of untranslated expressions with translation prohibition identification marks are left, the load of the final translation operation increases, the operation time increases, and it is difficult to unify the translated expressions and submit the pieces at the same time. Further, when the translation work is in progress, it is difficult to confirm what translation the untranslated word with the translation prohibition identification mark is translated into, and when a different translation should be used in a specific part of the original text, if the translation prohibition state is maintained, there is a possibility that an editor who does not understand the content of the original text sufficiently will unify the words mechanically, and the meaning of the original text cannot be reflected in the translation accurately.

Further, there is such a problem that: even if the technique of simulating the mechanical translation of patent document 2 is applied to the translation unification of the normal translation, setting of the corresponding condition is complicated, and the corresponding condition is set after a part of the original text is passed, and since all the conditions are not set, it is necessary to add a considerable number of new condition settings, and further, even if the condition setting is performed once, there is a need to change the condition, and therefore, it cannot be said that the technique is suitable particularly when a translation operation is performed in parallel by a plurality of translators in a short transaction period. Particularly, since translated words of verbs are sometimes translated according to the context of the original text, if a plurality of translators distinguish the translated verbs according to their own judgment and the translated words translated by the translators are combined into one, the work of unifying the translated words as a whole is extremely troublesome.

At this time, a method of: a highly skilled translator reads a part of the original text, determines a translated language of the main sentence, creates a translated language list, provides the translated language list to other translators, and performs translation work by referring to the translated language list by the other translators. However, with this method, there is a problem that: during the period before the translation list is created, another translator who creates a translation list can only perform an operation of a degree of overviewing on the original text, and cannot start a formal translation operation. Further, there arises a problem that: since the translator who creates the translation list reads only a part of the original text, the translator cannot determine the exact translation for the word appearing first in the latter half of the original text. In addition, when there is a need to correct a translation already in the translation list, it is difficult to cope with the correction.

In addition, in many industrial facilities such as medical facilities, measuring facilities, and processing facilities, which are developed by the technical composition, devices in other technical fields constituting a part of the facilities are combined in addition to the subject technology of the original document, and if the language is mechanically translated uniformly, the meaning of the original document may be incorrectly transmitted. In this case, when it is desired to completely unify the translations of the translations, each of the translators needs to check frequently whether the translation which the translator itself has assumed as a translation matches the translation of the same original sentence corresponding to another translator, and when the translations do not match each other, it is necessary to unify the translations for necessary portions after checking the cause of the mismatch. In this way, when a plurality of translators perform translation, it is a problem to minimize the workload of the plurality of translators performing the work.

In order to solve the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a server that can suppress wasteful use of work (overhead) caused by parallel work by a plurality of translators, such as an approval application work for a translation, an approval work, and a confirmation work for approval results, and suppress instability of a translation, even when a plurality of translators perform translation work in parallel.

[ MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS ] A method for solving the problems

In order to solve the above problem, a server according to the present invention is a server that is capable of communicating with a plurality of clients via a communication line, the plurality of clients having storage means for storing at least an original sentence included in an original text to be translated and a translation corresponding to the original sentence, the server including:

individual registration information storage means for storing individual registration information received from the client, the individual registration information including at least an original sentence registered by each client and a translation corresponding to the original sentence;

a text storage unit for storing the text to be translated by each client;

a translation storage unit that stores translations received from the clients;

a corresponding original text retrieval unit that retrieves whether or not an original text including a specific original text sentence newly and individually registered in the individual registration information storage unit exists in the original text storage unit, and specifies an original text including the specific original text sentence newly and individually registered in sentence units;

a translation retrieval unit that retrieves a translation corresponding to the specified original from the translation storage unit, retrieves whether or not a translation corresponding to the newly stored specific original sentence exists in the translation corresponding to the specified original, and stores the specified original and the corresponding translation when the translation corresponding to the specified original does not exist;

an individual translation search means for searching the individual registration information storage means using the newly and individually registered specific original sentence as a key, and searching all individual translations corresponding to the newly and individually registered specific original sentence;

an anomaly determination unit that determines, when a plurality of the individual translations exist, an anomaly of the plurality of the individual translations; and

and a display information creating unit that, when the dissimilarity determining unit determines that a different translation is present among the plurality of individual translations present, creates, on a display screen of a predetermined client among the plurality of clients, at least one of display information for displaying the newly registered specific original sentence and a plurality of different individual translations corresponding to the newly registered specific original sentence, and display information for displaying the stored specific original sentence and the corresponding translation.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, it is characterized in that, preferably, the server of the present invention,

further including, in the individual registration information, a project ID for uniquely specifying a translation project for each of the original sentence registered by each client and each of the translations corresponding to the original sentence, and a translator ID for specifying a translator who registers the individual registration information in the client,

the disclosed device is provided with:

a translation comparing unit that compares one unified translation corresponding to the item ID and the same original sentence and the original sentence received from the predetermined client and each translation corresponding to the same original sentence including the item ID received from each client stored in the individual registration information storing unit; and

and a notification information generation unit that generates notification information for notifying, when a translation corresponding to the same original sentence registered in each client is different from the unified translation, the client that has registered a translation different from the unified translation using the translator ID, the same original sentence, the unified translation, and the item ID.

[ Effect of the invention ]

The server of the present invention has the effect of suppressing the problem of inefficiency caused by parallel work by a plurality of translators, even for a project with a short delivery period and a large translation amount. Further, it is possible to perform translation work while suppressing the inconsistency of translated words (so-called "translation instability") caused by parallel work by a plurality of translators.

[ description of the drawings ]

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a system configuration of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a hardware configuration of the management server 150 and each client in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the first half of the functional blocks of the translation assisting system according to the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram showing a second half of a functional block of the translation assisting system according to the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a general flowchart showing an embodiment of the memory registration process of the translation support system according to the present invention and the memory collection process after each client has registered.

Fig. 6 is a diagram showing a detailed flowchart of the local storage registration process of step S5042 in fig. 5 of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 7 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the search processing and the notification processing for translation instability in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 8 is a diagram showing a unified translation input screen (step S722 in fig. 7) in the details of the search processing and notification processing for translation instability in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 9 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the confirmation request process (step S527 in fig. 5) of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 10 is a detailed flowchart showing the details of the translation unification replacement processing of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 11 is a detailed flowchart showing "processing corresponding to operation" in steps S508/S1208 and S530/S1226 of another embodiment of the independent start type in which the client-side processes of fig. 5 and 12 are multiple in the translation assisting system according to the present invention.

Fig. 12 is a general flowchart showing an example of the memory approval application process and the memory update notification process input by the client of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 13 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the translation support system according to the present invention when a re-approval application is made for the same sentence in the original text.

Fig. 14 is a flowchart showing details of the original text display attribute updating process in step S1240 in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 15 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the local memory update process on the client side of the translation assisting system according to the present invention.

Fig. 16 is a diagram showing a screen on which approval list information display and memory update processing are performed.

Fig. 17 is a detailed flowchart showing a modification of the memory update process of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 18 is a diagram showing a screen in which an original sentence for memory update and a translated sentence are displayed in parallel in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 19 is a detailed flowchart showing details of another modification of the memory update process of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 20 is a diagram showing a screen in which the original sentence and the translated sentence are displayed in parallel after the composition for updating the memory in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 21 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the board update process of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 22 is a diagram showing a screen on the client side of the translation support system according to the present invention, in which a state after a tag is displayed in a memory and a state after a "new to" tag is selected are displayed while an original text display window and a translated text display/input window are displayed in parallel.

Fig. 23 is a diagram showing a screen on the client side of the translation support system according to the present invention, in which an original text display window and a translated text display/input window are displayed in parallel, and small windows for displaying the contents of the respective memories are arranged in the left and right direction.

Fig. 24 is a diagram showing a screen on the client side of the translation support system according to the present invention, in which the screen is a multi-window screen. This figure shows a screen in which an original text display window and a translation display/input window are displayed in parallel, and small windows for displaying the contents of each memory are arranged on the left and right, wherein an editing screen and a memory display screen are displayed as a plurality of divided screens.

Fig. 25 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the approval notification process of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 26 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the reflection check process of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 27 is a diagram showing a detailed flowchart of "processing corresponding to operation" in steps S508/S1208 and S530/S1226 of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 28 is a diagram showing a detailed flowchart of the search process (S2726) and the replacement process (S2732) of translation candidates in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 29 is a diagram showing internal processing performed when editing operations are performed in the original text window and the translated text window in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 30 is a diagram showing a detailed flowchart of the "range specifying process" in S2707 of fig. 27 of the translation assisting system according to the present invention.

Fig. 31 is a diagram showing a detailed flowchart of the "search processing" in S2726 of fig. 27 in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 32 is a diagram showing another modification of the system configuration of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 33 is a general flowchart showing an example of the memory registration process and the memory collection process after the registration of each client in another embodiment (when a verifier doubles as a approver) of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 34 is a general flowchart showing an embodiment of the memory approval application processing and the memory update notification processing after the client input in another embodiment (when a verifier doubles as an approver) of the translation assisting system according to the present invention.

Fig. 35 is a diagram showing another modification of the system configuration of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 36 is a diagram showing another modification of the system configuration of the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 37 is a diagram showing a modification of the detailed flowchart (fig. 28) of the search process and the replacement process of translation candidates in the translation support system according to the present invention.

Fig. 38 is a diagram showing items of a memory and a management file of the translation support system according to the present invention.

[ detailed description ] embodiments

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The main flow diagram of the present invention has 4,

1) fig. 5 illustrates an approval application process in which a verifier registers a translation in person and a process in which translations of translators other than the verifier are collected and instability of the translation is detected, mainly when the verifier confirms a translation corresponding to a certain original sentence and approves the translation by the approver.

2) In fig. 12, the approval process corresponding to the translated language approval application by the translator other than the first validator is described mainly when the approver determines the translated language corresponding to a certain original sentence after the confirmation by the first validator.

3) Fig. 33 illustrates a process of registering a translation by an approver who is also a translator, and a process of collecting translations of translators other than the approver and detecting instability of the translation, when the approver approves a translation corresponding to a certain original sentence.

4) In fig. 34, the approval process corresponding to the translation approval application by a translator other than the approver is described mainly when the approver approves the translation corresponding to a certain original sentence.

Fig. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of a translation support system. Although the client a, the client B, and the client C in fig. 1 each represent a translator, the number of clients operated by a translator is not limited to these 3 clients. The number of clients operated by translators varies depending on the size of the translation project, and for larger translation projects, there are cases where clients from several tens of sizes to several hundreds of sizes, such as client D, client E, …, and client X, participate in the same project.

(1) Each client computer (for example, client a, client B, client C) of each translator and client Y operated by the approver are connected to the management server 150 via the network 100 such as LAN or internet using client software (for example, client-dedicated application software or browser software) installed in these client computers, read out memory information including text sentences, translations, and parts of speech stored in the shared memory 151 of the storage unit (for example, hard disk 28) of the management server 150 and application programs shown in the flowcharts of fig. 5 to 7 and fig. 9 to 15, 17, 19, 21, 25 to 31, 33 to 34, and 37 described later (including screen information for displaying application screens shown in fig. 8, 16, 18, 20, and 22 to 24 on the display screen of each client display), and translation files containing original or translated text stored in each of the one or more translation project files 152, or updates translated text through translation operations.

The translation job here refers to a job in which: the operation of replacing an original text described in an original language with a sentence in a target language in units of the sentence of the original text and creating a translated text described in the target language having a meaning as equal as possible to the meaning of the original text is repeated. The common memory 151 is a memory that is commonly used throughout the project and approved by the primary approver who operates the client a and the approver who operates the client Y, and includes a project ID, a textual statement, a part of speech, and a translation. The translations newly registered in the shared memory 151 are notified to all translators (client a, client B, and client C), and each translator adds the translation newly registered in the shared memory 151 to the local memory of the client operating by itself. In addition to the operations of once confirming, or denying the original sentence, part of speech, and translation requested by another translator, or of newly inputting a translation, the first confirmer may ask the approver to perform translation tuning when, for example, a time-consuming translation survey including a survey of the first appearance of a translation in a field such as the state of the art is required.

In this way, two persons share the time-consuming approval work and translation investigation, and thus the approval process can be performed quickly as a whole. In addition, the one-time validator may ask the approver to perform translation search after representing a plurality of translation candidates. Particularly, in the initial stage of the project, mainly for the purpose of specifying a frequently generated translation, it often happens that a person who confirms once translates the beginning or a part of the patent request part in person. Further, as another embodiment, there may be a case where there is not one confirmer but an approver and one or more translators. This embodiment is often adopted when the number of translators is small and the delivery period is somewhat flexible, or when the technical field in which the interpretation of the specialist term is almost fixed and the prediction of the man-hour for the interpretation investigation is small. If necessary, in order to specify a translation corresponding to an important original sentence, a permission request for the translation corresponding to the original sentence may be issued from the approver to an external third party, and the approver may decide the translation based on a response from the external third party. The processing of this portion will be described in the description of other embodiments.

(2) The management server 150 accepts, for example, a request from the client a, logs a translation file into the shared memory 151 or a reproducibility in the plurality of translation item files 152 or transmits information from the reproducibility to the client a. Here, the term "Repository" refers to a Repository of data, and the term "Repository" refers to a metaphorical expression, and an entity is a management area of logical data, and performs a unified management of various information including a translation file of a specific translation item. The translation project file 152 includes the ID of the translator participating in the project, the original document file, the translated document file, and various management files shown in fig. 38.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram showing a hardware configuration of the management server 150 and the clients a to C and Y. In each of the boxes, a CPU21, a ROM22, a RAM23, a Video Graphics Adapter (VGA)24, a LAN adapter 25, a keyboard 26, a mouse 27, an HDD28, and a DVD-ROM drive 29 are connected via a system bus 20, respectively. That is, the same reference numerals are used for the same hardware elements in the respective cases, for example: the subjects are clearly distinguished by the expression "CPU 21 of management server 150" or the like. An interface unit may be provided between the system bus 20, each component, and the system bus, but is not shown in the drawing. The CPU21 controls the management server 150 and the entire box of each client, and specifically, reads a boot program (boot loader) from the ROM22 at the time of startup to check and initialize hardware, reads a system program from the HDD28, and loads the system program into the RAM23 to establish an Operating System (OS). Further, the CPU21 loads an application program from the HDD28 into the RAM23 and executes the program in accordance with an operation by the user.

As described above, the ROM22 stores a Boot program (Boot program), and the RAM23 is used as a so-called main memory as an operating system, an application program, and a work area. VGA24 is an adapter for connecting a liquid crystal display or CRT to display a screen, and LAN adapter 25 transmits and receives data by connecting a LAN cable to an external network via a wireless cable. The keyboard 26 and the mouse 27 function as input means for inputting user operations.

Further, the HDD28 stores various programs (an operating system, application programs for executing the flowcharts shown in fig. 5 to 15, 17, 19, 21, 25 to 31, 33 to 34, and 37 of the present invention, and screen information of HTML for displaying on the client screen shown in fig. 16, 18, 20, and 22 to 24), various tables, approval application history information (detailed information of an approved application), and the like. The DVD-ROM drive 29 is a drive for reading a DVD-ROM or a DVD-R in which various programs are stored, and can write various data types into the DVD-R. The DVD-ROM drive 29 may also be a BD drive that can read and write a blu-ray disc.

An operating system 34(OS) such as Windows (registered trademark) is installed in a storage unit (for example, a hard disk 28 or a flash memory (not shown)) of computer hardware (including firmware) of each client, and basic dictionary data, which is an aggregate of dictionary files such as electronic dictionaries, translation sets, scientific and technical dictionaries, provided by each company, is stored in the hard disk 28 in addition to programs on the client side of a browser and an application program, and setting information with a search priority bit when each translator determines an appropriate translation according to a field of a translation original text is stored in the hard disk 28.

In general, the shared memory 151 is the 1 st-order bit, the local memory 115 including the original sentence and its translation added by each translator is the 2 nd-order bit, and the base dictionary data is the 3 rd-order bit or less. In the setting information, even if the search is performed using the original sentence in the shared memory of the 1 st order, if the memory of the 1 st order does not contain a matching original sentence, the local memory of the 2 nd order is searched, and when the search hits, the translated word is read out to the work area in the RAM23 together with the original sentence and used in the application. The basic dictionary data is used in a translation operation to search for candidates of words registered in a translation memory, and is also referred to when searching for whether or not a translated word corresponding to an original word is present in the translated word.

When activated under the control of the CPU21 in fig. 2, the data is read out to a main memory device of a computer, such as a RAM23, and executed. The runtime 32 is read out from a storage unit such as the hard disk 28 into a main storage device such as the RAM23 as needed and executed when executed under the control of the CPU21 as a part of an application program. The description of fig. 2 is thus completed.

Fig. 38 is a diagram showing data items and data examples of a memory and a management file used in the translation support system according to the present invention. The local memory is a mythesaurus file used by each translator on the client operated by the translator, and stores as data items for thesaurus: parts of speech such as noun (n), verb (v), and adjective (a); the method comprises the following steps of (1) obtaining an original sentence and a translation corresponding to the original sentence; the part of speech of the line of the memory, the entry date of the original sentence and its translation, the latest usage date and the latest type. The local storage sometimes uses a storage designated at the beginning of the item. The local store available to the translator person for this time can nevertheless be used in the 2 nd order of priority. Actually, the date and time of use is recorded not only to the year, month and day but also to the time (hour, minute and second) (described to the day in the data example of fig. 38). The category stores "L" when the translator logs in by itself, and stores "M" when downloaded from the shared memory and updated.

Further, the management data items include an item ID and a memory ID. The project ID is a unique number set per translation project. The memory ID is a unique number for uniquely identifying the local memory used by each translator throughout the system. Each translator may have 1 or more local memories, and the local memories are used separately. The local memory is stored in the hard disk 28 of each translator and uploaded to the management server 150 as appropriate. The details will be explained with the following flowchart.

Then, the shared memory 151 of fig. 38 is a memory commonly used in the entire project approved by the approver, and stores the translator ID of the approver. That is, the approver confirms the original sentence, the part of speech, and the translation which have been applied from another translator and have been confirmed (approved or denied) once by the verifier, and performs the operation of final approval, denial, or final approval by correcting the translation. Then, the management file 1) stores the project ID, translator IDs of all translators other than the approver participating in the project, and numbers of the first and last start pages, start paragraphs, start sentences, end pages, end paragraphs, and end sentences representing the ranges of the original texts of the respective translators.

In place of the management file 1),

A) the original document is divided into the same number of translators. The file name is, for example, item ID _ translator ID. In this way, it is also possible to adopt a method of determining the acting original of each translator by the file name itself, or,

B) the original document is divided into the same number of translators. It is also possible to adopt a method in which: the file names of the divided original texts are arbitrarily set, and the tables associating the translator IDs and the file names of the original texts are stored in the hard disk 28, but the method is not limited to a) B), as long as each translator can be determined to serve as the range.

Then, the management file 2) stores a project ID, an interpreter ID, and a category (indicating the type of the interpreter, CT as the primary validator, ET as the senior interpreter, and NT as the less experienced interpreter). Further, the translation completion page and the translation completion amount converted to the original text are estimated using the paragraph number of the translated text and the byte number of the translated text periodically uploaded to the management server 150, the translation progress rate (percentage) is calculated using the translation completion page and the translation completion line, and the state (earlier than standard: AD, substantially the same as standard: NM, later than standard: LT) is calculated and stored. Regarding the state, for example, if the translation item is 10 days, the early/standard/late is calculated from the total translation amount and the translation completion amount, based on the fact that the translation is completed by 6 to (6) days, the check of each translator is completed by 2 to (2) days, and the total integration check is performed by the remaining 2 to days. The management file 3) stores an item ID, a memory ID, priority bits of each memory, a source primitive indicating a primitive text primitive, a destination primitive indicating a primitive translation destination, "field" indicating a technical field, "date and year of start of the memory, and a status indicating whether the memory is in use (V) or not in use (W).

Next, various files other than the management file will be described. These various files are stored in the translation project file 152 of the management server 150 for each project ID.

(1) File formats that can be handled in the translation assisting system of the embodiment include, for example, MS-word (doc) made by microsoft corporation for use in a word processor, and HTML, text made by various browsers, but in addition, PDF (registered trademark Portable Document Format) made by Adobe corporation or xpf (xml Paper specification) Format and odf (open Document Format) made by microsoft corporation may also be used.

(2) The document file read by the translation assisting application of the translation assisting system according to the embodiment may be stored in the translation project file 152 dedicated to the translation assisting system. The translation item file 152 is composed of a "translation file" that holds a translation result including an original sentence and a translated sentence, a "translation memory file" that holds a translation memory, and an "authentication file" for authentication.

(3) Further, by storing a tag file in which a translator ID of a translator who has performed a translation operation at the time of translation, a time of operation, and the like are stored, and a file in which entry information such as a chapter of a translated sentence is stored, data in which a part of an original sentence is collectively replaced or conventionally replaced individually is stored in a history file by a memory registration of a new translated sentence at the time of operation and a translated sentence candidate read out from the memory, and a translation comment or the like input at the time of translation is stored in a comment file, it is possible to appropriately read them and display or print them on a screen.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram showing functional blocks of the translation system of the present invention, and some of the functional blocks correspond to the constituent elements (units) within the scope of patent claims. The following describes an outline of operations of the functional blocks. The thin dashed line in the horizontal direction in the central portion of fig. 3 represents the network 100. That is, unless otherwise specified, all of the information exchange between the management server 150 and the translator clients 340 (client B, client C), the information exchange between the management server 150 and the approver client 330 (client a, client Y), and the like are performed via the network 100. The details will be described with reference to the flowchart and the screen shown in fig. 5 and thereafter.

First, the management server 150 receives application information including an original sentence from each translator client 340 and a candidate translation corresponding to the original sentence from the application information receiving unit 321 of the information transmission/reception control unit 320, and stores the application information in the approval application history information storage unit 351. The application information is sent to the transfer unit 322, and is sent from the transfer unit 322 to the client a. Then, referring to the approval application history information storage unit 351 and the original text storage unit 352, the search unit 311 searches whether or not the original text of the application information received this time is included in the translation scope, and the search result of the scope storage unit 353 are also handed over to the notification determination unit 315. The notification determination unit 315 determines whether or not the same original sentence has been applied, whether or not the original sentence of the application information of this time is included in the original sentences in the range in which each translator performs translation, whether or not the approval translation matches the candidate translation included in the application information of this time, whether or not the notification timing of each translator has arrived with reference to the notification timing storage unit 356, and comprehensively determines the above-mentioned problems, and the translator to be notified reads out the exact notification content from the notification storage unit 355, hands over to the notification information generation unit 314, and transmits the notification content from the notification information transmission unit 325 to each client of the notification target.

The notification content is displayed on a display screen (individual window or tab display field) of each client that has received the notification. The notification includes approval result information of the original sentence of the application and the candidate translation corresponding to the original sentence (direct approval, approval with a different approval translation, negative approval (disapproval)), or a message corresponding to the approval application (the same original sentence and its approval translation are approved, the same original sentence and its different approval translation are approved, etc.).

Further, if each translator client 340 registers the original sentence and the translation corresponding to the original sentence in the local memory 940, the registration information including the original sentence and the translation corresponding to the original sentence is transmitted from the information transmission/reception control unit 341 to the management server 150, and the registration information including the original sentence from the registration information receiving unit 324 of the management server 150 and the translation corresponding to the original sentence is stored in the individual registration information storage unit 354 as individual registration information. In this way, it can be said that the individual registration information storage unit 354 stores the local memory 940 of the client operated by each translator as the individual registration information for each translator in the management server 150. The local memory 940 is a general term for local memories of the respective clients, and symbols shown in fig. 1 are used when identifying local memories of the respective clients.

When the translation stored in the individual registration information storage 354 is compared by the judgment unit 312 using the original sentence as a key and different translations are registered for the same original sentence by the translator, the display information generation unit 323 generates translation instability warning information including the matched original sentence, each translation and the translator ID, and transmits the warning information to the client a110 by the information transmission and reception control unit 320, the warning information is displayed on the screen of the client a110, and when the unified candidate translation is input, both the input unified candidate translation and the original sentence are transmitted to the management server 150 and transferred to the client Y190 operated by the approver, and the approval information including the unified translation is immediately received by the registration information receiving unit 324 from the client Y190, and then the approval information is added to the shared memory 151 and the individual registration information storage 354. Then, the translation corresponding to the original sentence individually registered by each translator in the individual registration information storage unit 354 is searched using the original sentence of the approval information as a key, and the translation comparison unit 313 compares the searched translation with the unified translation of the approval information corresponding to the original sentence, and if the searched translation does not match the unified translation, notification information including the original sentence individually registered by the notification information generation unit 314, the translation not matching the unified translation, and the unified translation is transmitted from the notification transmission unit 325 of the management server 150 to the client operated by the translator not matching the unified translation.

On the other hand, approval application information including an original sentence written in the local memory 940 (more specifically, the local memory 115) by the client a operated by the primary validator and a translation corresponding to the original sentence is stored in the approval application history storage unit 351 via the application information receiving unit 321 of the management server 150, the approval application information is transferred to the client Y operated by the approver via the transfer unit 322, registration information transmitted from the client Y to the management server 150 is received by the approval result information receiving unit 326, stored in the shared memory 151 via the notification judging unit 315, and judged as a new approval sentence by the notification judging unit 315, the notification information generating unit 314 generates new approval information, and transmits the new approval information from the notification information transmitting unit 325 to each translator client.

When each translator client 340 receives the approval information from the information transmission/reception control unit 341, the received approval information is stored in the work area in the RAM23 and transferred to the approval list information generation unit 342, and the approval list information generation unit 342 generates display information for displaying the approval list information on the screen of each translator client 340 and stores the display information in the work area in the RAM 23.

Further, the search unit 343 searches the original text storage unit 361 using the original text included in the received approval information stored in the RAM23 as a key, reads out all the original text of the hit portion in units of paragraph numbers or sentences identified by the paragraph numbers and sentence numbers, stores the entire original text in the RAM23 as a work area, and hands it over to the extraction unit 344. The extraction unit 344 extracts all translations corresponding to the extracted original text from the translation storage unit 362 based on the paragraph number and sentence number and stores them in the work area in the RAM 23. For a part failing to be extracted in sentence units, the entire paragraph is extracted and stored in the work area in the RAM23, and is handed over to the similarity determination section 345. The similarity determination unit 345 determines the similarity between each extracted pair of original translations (each extracted in paragraph units or sentence units). Specifically, predetermined english words (for example, 2 english words) or predetermined japanese characters (for example, 4 characters) before and after the original sentence are compared, the same group ID is added to the same object, the same object is stored in the work area of the RAM23, and the result is handed over to the classification unit 346.

The classification section 346 arranges the original translation pairs according to the group IDs, classifies each group ID, and stores the group ID in a work area in the RAM 23. The translation screen display unit 347 classifies each group ID stored in the work area in the RAM23, generates translation display information including 1 original sentence of the approval list information and the corresponding original translation pairs grouped and arranged in the group using the original translation pairs arranged in the same group ID in the order of appearance and the approval list information, and displays the translation display information on the screen. Further, instead of determining whether the words are different before and after each other, the corresponding japanese text retrieval unit 344 may transfer the words to the selection screen display unit 347 through the work area in the RAM23, and may compare and display the original text and the corresponding translation in units of the words of the original text that are simply approved in the appearance order.

Finally, at the client Y330, the application information received via the information transmission/reception control unit 331 is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and is handed over to the application information display unit 332, the application information including the original sentence and the candidate translation is displayed on the screen, the approval input unit 333 senses the input of approval or disapproval or the input of approval of the translation input on the screen, registers the original sentence and the approval translation corresponding to the original sentence in the local storage 115, and stores the input information in the work area in the RAM23, and is handed over to the approval information generation unit 334. The approval information generation unit 334 generates approval information to be transmitted to the management server, stores the approval information in the work area in the RAM23, and hands over the approval information to the information transmission/reception control unit 331. The information transmission/reception control unit 331 transmits the approval information to the management server 150. The management server receives the approval information via the approval result information receiving unit 326, registers the approval information in the shared memory 151, hands over the approval information to the notification information generating unit 314, generates approval notification information, and transmits the approval notification information to each translator client via the notification transmitting unit 325. This is the end of the outline description of fig. 3.

Next, fig. 4 will be explained. Fig. 4 is a functional block diagram similar to fig. 3, and describes a functional block diagram which cannot be completely described in fig. 3, and hardware of each translator client 340, approver client 330, and management server 150 is similar to that in fig. 3. First, when the translator client 340 selects a translation corresponding to a certain original sentence at the time of translation, the determination unit 444 of the translator client 340 determines whether or not an approval translation is selected, and when it determines that a translation other than the approval translation is selected, the attention information generation unit 445 generates the attention information including at least one of the information for specifying the translator ID or other client and the information of the original sentence and a translation different from the approval sentence, and transmits the generated attention information to the management server 150. The management server 150 receives the attention information at the application information receiving unit 320 of fig. 3, and transfers the attention information from the transfer unit 322 to the client Y. The details of this process will be described with reference to fig. 28.

Next, when the arrival timing determination section 441 of the translator client 340 in fig. 4 determines whether or not a predetermined confirmation timing has arrived, the predetermined confirmation timing has arrived, and when the new approval information determination step determines that new approval information has been obtained, the new approval information determination section 442 determines whether or not approval information has been newly received, the arrival timing determination section 441 determines that the predetermined confirmation timing has arrived, and when the new approval information determination section 442 has new approval information, the original text search section 343 searches whether or not the original text sentence included in the new approval information is included in the original text to be translated by the operator of the specific client, and the translation search section 443 searches whether or not the approved translation included in the new approval information is included in the translated text file of the translated text storage section 362 translated by the operator of the translator client. When the original sentence is included in the original sentence to be translated by the client operator and the approval translation is not included in the translation file translated by the specific client operator, the report information generating unit 446 generates report information including information indicating that the translation file translated by the specific client operator does not include the approval translation, and transmits the report information to the client Y operated by the approver via the management server 150. The details of this process will be described with reference to fig. 26.

Then, in the management server 150, the application history search unit 421 receives translation approval application information from a specific client, and searches the approval application history file in the approval application history storage unit 351 using the original sentence and the application translation included in the application history search. When the same original sentence, application translation, and the same approval translation are already present in the approval application history file by the search of the application history search unit 421, the first notification information indicating that the same original sentence and the approval translation thereof have been approved is generated in the first notification generation unit 423 of the notification generation unit 422 for the specific client, and is transmitted to the specific client. Then, when the same original sentence and different translation are already present in the approval application history file by the search of the application history search unit 421, the second notification generation unit 424 of the notification generation unit 422 generates second notification information for the specific client to the effect that the same original sentence and different translation are approved and to the effect that whether the different translation is known is requested, and transmits the second notification information to the specific client to wait for an immediate response. When the response message received from the specific client based on the second notification information contains information indicating that the different translation is unknown, the third notification generator 425 of the notification generator 422 generates third notification information for notifying the original sentence, the translation, and the message indicating that the application is to be reapplied, and transmits the third notification information to the client Y330, and the message indicating that the original sentence, the translation, and the reapplication are included in the translation approval application information transmitted to the client Y190. Then, when the identical original sentence does not exist in the approval application history file by the search of the application history search unit 421, the fourth notification generation unit 426 of the notification generation unit 422 generates fourth notification information for notifying the approver client Y330 of the original sentence included in the translation approval application information, and transmits the fourth notification information to the client Y330. The details of this process will be described with reference to the flowchart of fig. 13.

The application history search corresponding to the approval application may be executed by the client Y, and the client Y may receive the translation approval application information directly from the translator client via the information transmission/reception control unit 331, or may similarly receive the translation approval application information via the management server 150. The history search unit 431 searches for an approval application history of the same item ID using the original sentence and the application translation included in the received translation approval application information as a keyword. The search target may be the approval application history storage unit 351 of the management server 150 or may be an approval application history file of the hard disk 28 of the client Y330, which is not shown. In accordance with the search result of the approval application history, in the same manner as described above, the first approval notification generation unit 432 generates the first approval notification, and the second approval notification generation unit 433 generates the second approval notification, and transmits the second approval notification to the specific client who applied the application directly or via the management server 150. In the case of the re-application, the client Y is not the approver client, and therefore, the first message generating unit 434 generates a first message including a message intended to be re-applied, an original sentence, an application translation, and the like, and displays the message on the screen of the client Y, instead of the third notification. Similarly, in the case of a new application, the second message generation unit 435 generates a second message including a message, an original sentence, an application translation, and the like, which mean that the new application is made, instead of the fourth notification, and displays the second message on the screen of the client Y.

The management server 150 performs search processing for unstable translation, and the following description is given in brief. The foregoing has described: when each client registers an original sentence, a part of speech, and a translation corresponding to the original sentence in a local memory, the individual registration information received from the client and including at least the original sentence individually registered by each client and the translation corresponding to the original sentence is appropriately transmitted to the management server and stored in the individual registration information storage unit 351 which stores the individual registration information. The management server 150 further includes an original document storage unit 352 and a translation storage unit 357, and the original document storage unit 352 stores original documents to be translated by each client, and the translation storage unit 357 stores translations received from each client. The transmission frequency of the individual registration information differs depending on the environment such as whether the frequency of connection to the network is always connected or 1 time a day. If the environment is always connected, the time is, for example, about 1/5-10 minutes, and if the environment is connected for less than 5 times in 1 day, each frame is sent for 1 time. The connection frequency is determined by referring to the label of the network connection.

The corresponding original text retrieval unit 413 retrieves whether or not the original text including the specific original sentence newly and individually registered in the individual registration information storage means for a certain translator exists in the original text storage unit 352, specifies the newly and individually registered original text including the specific original sentence in units of sentences, and stores the specified original text in the work area in the RAM23, wherein the original text storage unit 352 stores the original text to be translated by all translators including other translators. Then, the corresponding translation retrieving unit 411 retrieves a translation corresponding to the specific original from the translation storing unit 357 to retrieve whether or not an approved translation corresponding to the newly stored specific original sentence exists in the translation corresponding to the specific original, and if there is no approved translation corresponding to the specific original sentence, stores the specific original and the corresponding translation in the work area in the RAM 23.

Then, the individual translation searching section 414 searches the individual registration information storage section 354 using the newly and individually registered specific original sentence as a key, searches all individual translations corresponding to the newly and individually registered specific original sentence, and stores them in the work area in the RAM 23. Then, when there are a plurality of individual translations, the similarity/dissimilarity determination unit 412 determines whether there are a plurality of differences between the individual translations. When the dissimilarity determination unit 412 determines that there are different translations in the plurality of individual translations, the display information generation unit 427 generates at least one of two types of display information on the display screen of a predetermined client (the client Y operated by the approver or the client a operated by the single validator) among the plurality of clients: display information for displaying the newly registered specific original sentence and a plurality of different individual translations corresponding to the newly registered specific original sentence; and the display information is used for displaying the stored specific original text and the corresponding translated text. Further, it is preferable that the structure is such that: the management server 150 includes an operation information receiving unit 428 that receives operation information including input information input from each translator client to the client, and stores translation approval application information, an approval translation, an approval flag indicating whether approval is allowed or not, and an approval time indicating an approved time in the approval application history storage unit 351. The display information generating unit 427 generates display information for displaying, on the screen of the client, an original text display window for displaying, on the screen of the client, the original text to be translated by the operator of the client using the original text in the coverage area, and a translated text display window for displaying, on the basis of the received operation information, the translated text that is the result of translating the original text. Further, the display information generating unit 427 may generate display information for displaying at least one of four windows on the other screen of the approver client, based on the approval flag and the approval time: fig. 24 approval translated term display window 2401 for displaying the translated term approval application information approved before the predetermined time; fig. 24 new entry approval translation display window 2402 displaying the approved translation approval application information after the predetermined time; a translate display window 2403 in fig. 24 for displaying the unapproved translate approval application information; and a repudiation phrase display window 2404 of fig. 24 for displaying the repudiation phrase approval application information. The description of fig. 4 is thus completed.

Fig. 5 is a flowchart showing a memory registration process and a registered memory collection process. The following processing is described in the flowchart of fig. 5: a process of the first-time validator who operates the client a also translating himself, and performing approval request to the client Y operated by the approver for registering the translation in the shared memory 151 during translation; the client B and the client C collect the translated words newly registered in their local memories and notify the client A when the translated words are unstable. In addition, the following processing is described in the general flowchart of fig. 25 described later: a process of requesting approval from the client Y operated by the approver to register the translation in the shared memory 151 when the client B and the client C operated by another translator other than the first validator translate; and a process of notifying the translation approved by the approver to all translators. The description returns to fig. 5. Steps S501 to S512 in fig. 5 are processes executed by the client a operated by the verifier, steps S521 to S532 are processes executed by the management server 150, steps S550 to S556 are processes executed by the client C and the client B, and steps S561 to S563 are processes executed by the client Y operated by the approver and are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of each hardware. The same applies to the following flowcharts (flowcharts of fig. 5 to 15, 17, 19, 21, 25 to 31, 33 to 34, and 37).

In the processing of the subsequent flowcharts including fig. 5, the connection (access establishment) and the registration (authentication processing) with the management server 150 are completed unless otherwise noted as the processing executed independently. Note that the management server 150 is assumed to execute each process in a multi-process. That is, for example, the processing shown in fig. 5 and the processing shown in fig. 12 may be executed as separate processes, or may be executed as separate processes in the same flowchart. For example, in the processing of the client B in fig. 12, steps S1201 to S1208 and steps S1209 to S1212 are separate processes, and in the processing of the client C, steps S1251 to 1253 and steps S1241 to S1244 are separate processes. First, in step S501, the first-time confirmer who operates the client a requests the management server 150 for a screen for memory registration, and in step S521, the management server 150 transmits screen information for displaying the memory registration screen to the client a, and the process proceeds to step S522, and becomes a standby state for receiving information from the client a. After receiving the screen information, the client a stores the screen information in the work area in the RAM23, displays a first screen (an entry field for the item ID, an entry field for the memory ID of the login point, and an OK button), which is not shown, on the display of the client a, and when it is detected that the item ID and the memory ID of the login point are entered and the OK button is pressed, the client a shifts to the next screen. An input field and a registration screen not shown are displayed on the next screen. The input field is used for inputting word classes, original sentences and translated languages; the registration screen not shown includes a registration button in which a "registration" character is written. When all the input contents of the displayed screen are stored in the work area in the RAM23 and all the necessary input items of the displayed screen are input, the transmission flag of the work area in the RAM23 for allowing transmission of information to the management server 150 is turned ON, and when the login button is pressed, the process proceeds to step S502. In step S502, it is determined whether the transmission flag is ON, and if the transmission flag is ON, the process proceeds to step S503. On the other hand, when the transmission flag is OFF or a shift operation from the login screen to another screen or menu is sensed, the process proceeds to step 505.

In step S503, the operation information is transmitted to the management server 150, and the process proceeds to step S504. If the operation information is, for example, application information of the memory, the operation information includes a project ID, a memory ID, a translator ID, and a part of speech, an original sentence, and a candidate translation. In step S504, it is determined from the screen information and the input content stored in the work area in the RAM23 whether or not the operation information is a memory application operation, and if it is determined that the operation information is a memory application operation, the process proceeds to step S5042, and if it is determined that the operation information is not a memory application operation, the process proceeds to step S505. In step S5042, the input part of speech, original sentence, and translation are registered in the default local memory specified in advance by the item ID input in the first screen for each type "L", and the process proceeds to step S505. The processing of step S505 to step S512 and step S530 in the client a will be described later. Details of the processing of step S5042 will be described with reference to the flowchart of fig. 6. The following returns to the description of the processing on the management server 150 side again.

Here, the processing on the management server 150 side will be described. In step S522, after receiving information from the client a, the management server 150 in the information reception standby state advances the process to step S523, determines whether the received information is application information of the memory, and advances the process to step S524 when it is determined that the received information is application information of the memory. In step S524, the memory application information (the item ID, the memory ID, and the part of speech, the textual statement, and the candidate translation) is transmitted to the client Y operated by the approver. In step S561, when the client Y receives the memory application information, stores it in the work area in the RAM23, and receives the icon or animation indicating that the memory application information has been received and the dialog screen on which the OK button and the cancel button are displayed, and senses that the OK button has been pressed on the dialog screen, the memory approval input screen containing the memory application information (a screen on which memory update information, an approval button, a denial button, an approval translation input field, a comment input field, and a save button are displayed) is displayed, and the process proceeds to step S562. In step S561, instead of displaying the dialog, an icon or animation to the effect that the memory application information is received may be displayed at a predetermined position such as the right end of the taskbar, and the memory approval input screen may be displayed by sensing an operation to select the icon or animation.

In step S562, a memory approval input screen is displayed, and if it is sensed that the save button is pressed in a state where the text is input in the approval translation input field or the approver comment input field, an input category for identifying approval translation or approver comment and the input text are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and if it is sensed that the approval button or the deny button is pressed, an approval flag corresponding to the pressed button is stored in the work area in the RAM 23. At step S563, the memory approval information stored in the work area in the RAM23 is transmitted to the management server 150, and contains at least the item ID, the approval flag, the textual statement, the part of speech, the candidate translation, the approval translation, (when entered in the translation input field or the comment input field) the input category for identifying the corrected approval translation or approver comment (1 when the approval translation is corrected, 2 when the approver comment is entered, and 3 when both are entered), and the entered text.

In step S525, the management server 150 receives the memory approval information, stores it in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S526. In step S526, it is determined whether the candidate translation and the approval translation of the memory approval information are the same by referring to the work area in the RAM23, and if they are determined to be the same, the process proceeds to step S528, and if they are determined to be different, the process proceeds to step S527. In step S527, since the client Y operated by the approver is an exceptional case in which the memory update information of the first validator is not approved in the candidate translation, the client a transmits confirmation request information regarding the contents of the memory application (the candidate translation and the approval translation) of the client a to the client a. The details of this process will be described with reference to the detailed flowchart of fig. 9.

In step S528, the memory update information (the item ID, the memory ID, and the part of speech, the original sentence, and the translation) is transmitted to the management file 1) at the transmission destination specified by each translator ID registered with the item ID, and the process proceeds to step S529. In step S529, the management file 1) is searched using the item ID and the translator ID as keywords, and if the type is CT, the received item ID, memory ID, translator ID, and part of speech, original sentence, and translation are registered in the shared memory shown in fig. 3, and the process proceeds to step S530. In step S530, processing corresponding to the operation of the client a is executed, returning the processing to step S522. Details of step S530 will be described later.

Next, in steps S550 to S556, two kinds of processing will be described as an example, the two kinds of processing being: a process of reflecting the memory update information received by the client C to its local memory; the processing of logging itself in the memory in the local memory thereof by the category L and transmitting to the management server 150 is collected. In step S550, the memory update information (item ID, memory ID, and part of speech, original sentence, and translation) received from the management server is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S551. In step S551, the setting file of the client C stored in the hard disk 28 is read into the RAM23, and it is determined whether or not the automatic update flag is ON, and if ON, the process proceeds to step S553, and if not, the process proceeds to step S552. In step S552, it is determined whether or not there is a memory refresh operation (specifically, the refresh button is pressed on the memory refresh screen), and if it is determined that there is a case, the process proceeds to step S553, and if it is determined that there is no case, the process returns to step S550. In step S553, the default local storage for the item ID is updated using the received storage update information. After the entire memory update information is added to the local memory, the process proceeds to step S554.

In step S554, the local memory is searched, and if there is a line of which the type is "L" and the registration date matches the system date, the item ID, the translator ID, and the part of speech, the original sentence, and the translation are stored in the work area in the RAM23 for all the matching lines, and the process proceeds to step S555. Before step S554 is executed, the client C performs an operation of registering the original sentence and the translation word corresponding to the original sentence at the time of the translation job, and the line of the type "L" is previously added to the local memory of the client which operates itself. In step S555, if there is a line whose category is "L" even if 1 line and whose login date matches the date after one of the earlier date of the system date and the date of the last connection to the network 100, the process proceeds to step S556, and if there is no 1 line, the process returns to step S550. In step S556, the item ID, the translator ID, and the part of speech, the original sentence, and the translation stored in the work area in the RAM23 are transmitted to the management server 150, and the process returns to step S550.

In step S531, the management server 150 receives the memory information of the self-registration amount, stores the memory information in the work area in the RAM23, transfers the received memory information to the client Y if the translator ID of the memory to which the self-registration amount is transmitted is the primary verifier, and after the client Y approves, registers the memory information in the shared memory 151 (new registration or update), and advances the process to step S532. If the user is not the one-time verifier, the process proceeds to step S532 without registering the user on the shared memory 151. In step S532, the individual registration information storage unit 354 searches whether or not the same original sentence is present in the individual registration information of the memory of another translator, or whether or not the same original sentence is present in the original sentence of the translated portion, and judges whether or not the translation corresponding to the translation matches the translation of the memory information of the self-registration amount received this time, and if not, notifies a verifier or approver once. The details of the processing of this step will be separately described with reference to the detailed flowchart of fig. 7.

In step S509, the client a operated by the verifier is notified of unstable translation information. Finally, the processing of steps S505 to S512 and S530 will be described. In step S505, it is determined whether the detected operation is an end operation (for example, when it is detected that an "X" button in the upper right corner of the screen is pressed, an "end" menu is selected, or an "end button" is pressed). When the operation is ended, the process proceeds to step S506, and in step S506, the opened file is closed and the data not saved is saved, and then the process is ended. If the operation is not to be ended, the process proceeds to step S507, and in step S507, it is determined whether or not an operation other than the above-described memory registration operation or ending operation is sensed. When an operation other than the memory login operation or the end operation is sensed, the process proceeds to step S508, and when the operation is not sensed, the process proceeds to step S509.

In step S508, processing corresponding to another operation is executed, and the process proceeds to step S509. The other operations are operations provided for translation by the translation assisting system, for example: a range designation operation for determining a translated term, a search operation for searching a memory, a selection operation for selecting a desired translation in a translation bulletin for which a search is performed, a file saving operation, and the like. The details of the processing of step S508 and the details of the processing of step S530, which is the processing of the management server 150, will be described with reference to the flowchart of fig. 27.

Then, in step S509, it is determined whether or not the notification information is received from the management server 150, and when it is determined that the notification information is received, the received notification information is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S510. In step S510, the processing diverges depending on the received notification content. In the notification, if the part of speech is a noun and the translated phrases are not matched, or if the part of speech is a verb and the same original sentence includes 3 or more translated phrases which are not matched, it is determined that display is necessary, and the process proceeds to step S511. If the part of speech is a verb and there are 2 translated words that are not identical, the process proceeds to step S512. In step S511, an icon is displayed on the screen of the client a, and the process proceeds to step S512. In step S512, the notification information received this time is added to the notification tag of the hard disk 28. The description of fig. 5 ends up so far.

Fig. 6 is a diagram showing a detailed flowchart of the new registration process (step S5042 in fig. 5) performed on the local memory of each client in the TME mode. The process of fig. 6 is a process executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client a and the CPU21 of the management server 150. The TME mode is a mode in which a translation corresponding to a term (primitive) of an original text is selected, the selected translation is registered, and the original text sentence (for example, a part of a word, or a phrase) is replaced with the selected translation. If a word or a sentence in an original text is replaced with a translation, the same word or sentence appearing thereafter is replaced similarly, but the entire file is not replaced all at once by tracing back forward, and therefore, a certain primitive can be replaced with another translation from the middle, or individual replacement can be performed by a non-TME pattern. In step S601, when the client a side senses an operation of selecting a specific range of characters, the characters in the selected range and operation information indicating that the specific range of characters has been selected are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S602.

In step S602, upon sensing that the space key is pressed by the client a side, the operation information of the work area stored in the RAM23 is transmitted to the management server 150, and the process proceeds to step S603. In step S603, the management server 150 searches the local storage 115 for a memory using the received characters in the selection range as a key, and advances the process to step S604. In step S604, the search result is stored as a cache item of translation candidates in the memory cache 945 of the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S605.

In step S605, the cache entries stored in the memory cache 945 are arranged in accordance with usage day > update day > usage frequency, and the process proceeds to step S606. In step S606, upon sensing that the space key is pressed, the arranged buffer items are displayed as a pull-down list, and the process proceeds to step S607. That is, the local memory addition in the TME is performed from a drop-down list that appears upon the space key being pressed. In step S607, upon sensing that the Enter key is pressed, the process proceeds to step S608. When the client a newly registers the translated word in the local storage, the management server 150 receives the translated word (step S522) in accordance with the processing shown in fig. 5 (step S504), transfers the translated word to the client Y (step S524), and performs the approval processing by the client Y. On the other hand, when a translator other than the client a newly registers the translation in the local storage, the translation is transmitted to the management server 150 as a memory of the self-registration amount shown in fig. 5 (step S556).

In step S608, a new login window is displayed, and input of login content is awaited. When the input of the character is sensed and the Enter key is pressed, the process proceeds to step S609. In step S609, the registered translation is stored in the local memory 940 as the translation whose use date and update date are the latest, and the registration result is reflected on the display screen of the TME mode (the display is updated with the input characters). Then, the process advances to step S610. In step S610, if it is sensed that the Enter key is pressed again, the mode returns to the original TME mode, and the processing is ended. The newly registered phrase (translation) is displayed in the top order of the drop-down list before another translation is registered in the same primitive or another translation is selected. The description of fig. 6 ends up so far.

Fig. 7 is a flowchart showing details of the search processing and the notification processing (step S532 in fig. 5) for unstable translated language in the translation support system according to the present invention. In fig. 7, the processes of steps S701 to S714 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150, the processes of steps S721 to S723 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client a, and the processes of steps S741 to S743 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client Y. In step S701, the translator ID, the project ID, the original sentence, and the translation included in the individual registration information, which are newly and individually registered, are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S702.

In step S702 (corresponding to the original search), the original in the original storage unit 352 of all the translators participating in the project including the registered translator is searched using the newly and individually registered original sentence stored in the work area in the RAM23 in step S701 as a key, and as a result of the search, the paragraph number, sentence number, original sentence, unstable translation flag (initial state is OFF), and failure flag (initial state is OFF) of the hit are output to the unstable translation work file stored in the hard disk 28.

In step S703 (corresponding to translation search), all translations of all translators participating in the project are searched from the translation storage unit 357 using the paragraph number in the work file and the sentence number of the paragraph number, with the translation of the work area stored in the RAM23 in step S701 corresponding to the original sentence as a keyword. As a premise, paragraph numbers are added to both the original and the translated text, and a paragraph number of a paragraph 0011 is added to a paragraph of the translated text corresponding to a paragraph number of a paragraph of the original text, for example, a paragraph 0011 of the original text. When the number of original sentences (the maximum value of the sentence number) in a certain paragraph does not match the number of translated sentences in the corresponding paragraph, a sentence number is searched for, for example, by adding or subtracting 1 from the sentence number. At this time, for example, if the translation is an english-japanese translation, the number of characters of about half of a sentence in japanese is used as the corresponding number of english words, and each japanese sentence number is subjected to comparison. Specifically, for example, if an error range of empirically multiplying the number of english words by 2 plus or minus about 20% is set as the number of japanese characters corresponding to the same paragraph number and the number is within the error range (1.6 to 2.4), it is determined that the sentence is not divided. When there is no translated language corresponding to the sentence number of the translated language corresponding to the original language including the judgment of the sentence division, the language translation instability flag is turned ON for the corresponding portion (in units of sentences), and the corresponding original language and translated language are stored in the work area in the RAM 23.

If the number of characters of the Japanese language is outside the range, the Japanese language is judged to be divided when the number of characters of the Japanese language is smaller than the minimum value, and the Japanese language is judged to be integrated when the number of characters of the Japanese language is larger than the maximum value. When the character data of a translated sentence corresponding to a paragraph of an original sentence is zero, it is judged that the translated sentence is not translated, and the unstable translated sentence flag is turned OFF and the fail flag is turned ON for all the sentences numbered in the paragraph. Even if a corresponding translated language is assumed, the number of original texts may be greatly different from the number of translated languages, and the determination of the existence of the corresponding translated language may fail. If it fails, the fail flag is turned ON. If the failure flag is OFF and the translation instability flag is ON, there is a high possibility that the translation corresponding to the same original sentence is unstable in the translation created by the translator.

In step S704 (individual translation search), the corresponding translations in the memories of the registered amounts of oneself and the shared memory 151 of the other translators are searched using the original sentence stored in the memory of the registered amount of oneself in the work area in the RAM23 in step S701 as a key, and the translator ID, the memory ID, the original sentence, the word class, and the translation of all the memories that have been searched are stored in the work area in the RAM23 in addition to the item ID, and the process proceeds to step S705. In step S705, the translations of the memory of the self-registration amount are compared with the translations of the other translators stored in the work area of the RAM23 and the translations of the shared memory 151, and when it is determined that the translations match for the self-registration amounts of all the translators, the process is terminated, and when it is determined that the self-registration amounts of at least 1 translator do not match, or when there is a translation in which even 1 unstable translation flag is ON in the unstable translation work file stored in the hard disk 28, the process proceeds to step S706.

In step S706, using the unstable transliteration information in the transliteration which is stored in the unstable transliteration work file in step S703 and the unstable transliteration information of the transliteration which is stored in the RAM23 in the work area in step S704, notification information 1 (item ID; a textual statement; a part of speech; translator ID; each translation of the translator; each memory ID; or even if 1 translation with unstable translation flag ON exists, the item ID of the translation with unstable translation flag ON is contained; the matching global translator IDs; all paragraph numbers with the unstable interpretation marks of the translator ID being ON; original text; and the corresponding translation. ) And stored in the work area in the RAM23, causing the process to proceed to step S707. In step S707, the notification information 1) stored in the work area in the RAM23 is transmitted to the client a that has been operated by the verifier, and the process proceeds to step S708, where the client a is placed in a waiting state for receiving a response.

In step S721, the client a receives the notification information 1) and stores it in the work area in the RAM23, and displays an animation or an icon of the notification information 1) indicating that the non-uniform translation is received on the display of the client a, and if a confirmer selects (for example, left-clicks with a mouse) the animation or the icon, the process proceeds to step S722, and the non-uniform translation notification and the uniform translation input screen 800 shown in fig. 8 are displayed on the display, and the non-uniform translation notification window 810 is displayed on the upper part of the screen. In the unified translation input screen 800, the same unstable translation portions exceeding a predetermined number are marked in pages. For example, page 1 shows the first appearance position of instability of a translation, and page 2 and later shows instability of the same translation.

In the non-uniform translation notification window 810, a checkup bar, a sentence of original text, a translation, an interpreter ID, and an original text display button are displayed in this order from left to right. The first validator confirms the original sentence and the translation, and inputs a check mark "√" in a check bar in which a row to be translated is described, and in fig. 8, the non-uniform translation notification window 810 shows the following meanings: for the original sentence "a mental disorder", the translator of translator ID786 used an a add of mental disorder, the translator of translator ID777 used an one of mental disorder, and the translator of translator ID751 used an a mental disorder. By pressing the "original text" button 811 on the screen, the original text file in the translation range table corresponding to the translator ID786 is searched, the english or japanese sentence of the original text at the first search hit position is identified by the english terminator or japanese sentence number with the english or japanese sentence as the center, about 3 english or 3 japanese sentences before and after the search hit position are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the original text containing the first matching position of the original text in the original text range in which the translator of the translator ID786 performs translation is displayed in the original text display window 820 in the middle of the screen. This facilitates confirmation of the appropriateness of translation by each translator. Further, when a plurality of notifications are to be viewed, the previous page button 833 or the next page button 834 is pressed, whereby another notification information is displayed in the unified translation notification window 810. A new phrase input window 830 is displayed below the original text display window 820, and a new translated phrase can be registered by pressing a new input button 835 after a new translated phrase is newly input to the new phrase input window 830.

If the user inputs the check symbol "√" and then presses the approval button 832, the translated word a of the line is approved as a uniform candidate translated word corresponding to the textual statement "one kind of mental illness" and information indicating that the confirmation is performed once is stored in the work area of the RAM23, the process proceeds to step S723, and the notification information 1) including the item ID, the textual statement, the word class, and the like and the approved uniform candidate translated words are transmitted to the management server 150. When the check symbol "√" is input for each of the plurality of translations, it is equivalent to once confirming that two translations are used differently (differential translation), and 2 translations are included as the unified candidate translation.

In step S708, the received information is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S709. In step S709, the information of the work area stored in the RAM23 is transferred to the client Y, and the process proceeds to step S710 to enter a standby state in which a response is received from the client Y. Steps S741 to S743 are only the point that the execution agent is the client Y, the unified translation candidate received from the management server 150 is approved, and the unified translation candidate is transmitted to the server as the unified translation together with the notification information 1), and therefore, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. The management server 150 stores the notification information 1) and the unified translation received in step S710 in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S711. In step S711, the corresponding translation search similar to step S703 is executed using the original sentence and the unified translation as keywords, and 1 person score of each translation used by the translator participating in the project and the original paragraph number and sentence number of the original sentence in which the translation appears are extracted, and the process proceeds to step S712. In step S712, the extracted translated language is compared with the unified translated language, and whether the translated language is consistent or not is determined. If the multiple translations are approved for use in a differentiated manner (if there are multiple unified translations), the translations are judged to be identical if they are identical to any of the multiple unified translations.

If the translated words do not match, the process proceeds to step S713. If the translated language matches, the process proceeds to step S714. In step S713, the notification information 2) for confirming the translation is transmitted to the other client operated by the translator ID whose translation does not match, using the information of the work area stored in the RAM23 in step S707 and the information of the work area received and stored in the RAM23 in step S710, and the transmission flag corresponding to the translator ID to which the notification information 2) is transmitted is turned ON in the transmission tag containing the translator ID and the transmission flag stored in advance in the work area in the RAM 23. The notification information 2) contains the project ID, the original sentence, the unified translation, the original of the other translators corresponding to the unified translation, and the original paragraph number and the sentence number of the first-appearing part of the original sentence of each translator in the notification area.

In step S731, the other client receives and stores the notification information 2) into the work area in the RAM23, and displays an icon or animation on the screen that means that the notification information 2) is received. If the icon or animation is selected, the process proceeds to step S732, and the content of the notification information 2) and a message requesting confirmation (for example: in the item ID xxxxx, the noble has used the translation "one of mental diseases" for the textual statement "one of mental diseases", but the approver has approved the translation "a of mental diseases", and this is notified. Please confirm the matching first appearance position (the y-th sentence of the 00XX paragraph) of the original and the translated sentences. ). Of course, the contents of the notification information 2) may be displayed in a plurality of list formats (display formats in which a plurality of unstable translation portions are displayed in a list format).

In step S714, it is determined whether or not the determination of the matching of the translations of the entire translators in step S712 is completed based ON the transmission flag of the transmission tag of the work area in the RAM23, and if the transmission flag is ON for all of the translators IDs, the processing is completed. If there is a translator ID whose transmission flag is not ON in the transmission tag, the process returns to step S711. By this processing, even when an approval application for a translation is not made, the one-time confirmer and the approver can confirm that the translation is unstable and notify the translator using the translation which is not approved of the translation of the unified translation to call attention. In addition, as a modification (other embodiment), the unified translation is notified as an approved translation in the same manner as the processing shown in fig. 12 (see step S1232), and the unified translation is displayed on the screens shown in fig. 16, 18, and 20, and the processing of updating the local memory is also included in the present invention. The description of fig. 7 ends up so far.

Next, the flowchart of fig. 9 will be explained. Fig. 9 is a detailed flowchart for explaining details of the confirmation request processing (processing when the candidate translation of the verifier does not match the approval translation of the approver) in step S527 in fig. 5. In fig. 9, steps S921 to S926 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150, steps S901 to S903 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client a operated by one confirmer, and steps S961 to S963 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client Y operated by the approver. First, in step S921, the management server 150 generates confirmation request information (including a message indicating that the candidate translation is corrected by the approver, a message requesting confirmation of the content, a project ID, a textual statement, a part of speech, an approval translation, a candidate translation, and an approver comment) for transmission to the client a using the memory approval information (see description of step S562 in fig. 5) of the work area stored in the RAM23, stores the confirmation request information in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S922. In step S922, the confirmation request information of the work area stored in the RAM23 is transmitted to the client a, and the process proceeds to step S923.

Here, the processing on the client a side is explained first. In step S901, the client a receives and stores the confirmation request information in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S902. In step S902, an icon or animation for which confirmation information is received is displayed at a predetermined position such as the right end of the task bar using the confirmation request information stored in the RAM23, an operation for selecting the icon or animation is sensed, a one-time confirmer comment input screen (not shown) is displayed (a screen displaying a message for which a candidate translation has been corrected by an approver, a message for which confirmation of the content is requested, an item ID, a textual statement, a part of speech, an approval translation, a candidate translation, an approver comment, a one-time confirmer comment input field, and an OK button), and if it is sensed that the OK button is pressed, the process proceeds to step S903. In step S903, a one-time confirmer comment including the item ID, the original sentence, the part of speech, the approval translation, the candidate translation, and the one-time confirmer-input comment is sent to the management server.

Here, the description returns to the processing of the management server 150. In step S923, the management server 150 adds the confirmation request information of the work area stored in the RAM23 to the approval application history file 153 using the item ID, the original sentence, and the part of speech as the key, and advances the process to step S924. In step S924, the client a waits for reception of the primary validator comment, and stores the primary validator comment in the work area of the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S925. In step S925, the primary validator comment stored in the RAM23 in the work area is added to the approval application history file 153 with the item ID, the original sentence, and the part of speech as keywords, and the process proceeds to step S926. In step S926, one confirmer comment for the work area stored in the RAM23 is sent to the client Y.

In step S961, the client Y stores the received one-time confirmer comment in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S962. In step S962, an icon or animation for receiving the one-time confirmer comment is displayed at a predetermined position such as the right end of the task bar, an operation of selecting the icon or animation is sensed, a one-time confirmer comment confirmation screen (not shown) is displayed on the screen of the client Y (a screen displaying the item ID, the textual statement, the part of speech, the approval translation, the candidate translation, the approver comment, the comment input by the one-time confirmer, the correction input field for inputting the correction translation, and the OK button), and when it is sensed that the OK button is pressed, the process proceeds to step S963. In step S963, it is determined whether or not a text as a corrected translation is input in the correction input field for inputting the corrected translation, and when the text is input, the process proceeds to step S528 in fig. 5. When no text is input, the process proceeds to step S522 in fig. 5. The description of fig. 9 is thus completed.

Next, in fig. 10, a description will be given of a process when a new translation is to be uniformly replaced with a translation (old translation) of a previous original sentence 1) in response to another request for the same translation (old translation) from another primitive 2) after a certain original sentence 1) and the translation (old translation) are approved. The processing in fig. 10 is executed under the control of the CPU21 of each client, and is executed in step S508 in fig. 5 or step S1208 in fig. 12 described later.

This happens frequently: for example, when the user originally applies for device (original sentence 1)), the user approves the device according to the translation language, but later applies for device again according to the translation language, and the user wants: in a bad place, "change the translation of device to 'DEBAISU' (new translation), and specify the translation of appaatus as 'device' (old translation) bar", etc.

On the translation side, the statement corresponding to device becomes "device", and if the apparatus is directly replaced with the apparatus, confusion occurs between the two. Then, the reapplication process is approved, and when the translation is changed on the client side, the following process is performed on the translation side. The following description will be made by taking examples.

In step S1001, the old translation to be changed is input or selected by range designation, and stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1002. In step S1002, the old translated language corresponding to the original sentence 1 ("device" in the above-mentioned case) is retrieved from the translated language, the retrieved old translated language and the existing position (paragraph number and sentence number) of the old translated language are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1003. In step S1003, the display attribute such as the character color or the background color (ground color) of the retrieved corresponding old translation (in the above example, "device") is changed to a predetermined first display attribute, and the old translation and the changed first display attribute are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1004. In addition, in the flowchart, the original sentence is abbreviated as "primitive".

In step S1004, a new translation corresponding to the original sentence 1) is newly input from the screen so as to be changed from the old translation ("device"), and the new translation and the first display attribute are added to and stored in the work area in the RAM23, unlike the old translation, and the process proceeds to step S1005. In step S1005, the old translation in the translated text is replaced with the new translation ("debasisu") using the first display attribute of the work area stored in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1006. In step S1006, the display attribute of the original sentence 2) ("application") in the translated text is changed, and the display attribute is separately stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1007. In step S1007, the original sentence 2 ("apparatus") in the translated sentence is replaced with the old translated sentence ("means") in the work area stored in the RAM23 by the preset display attribute (second display attribute), and the process proceeds to step S1008.

In step S1008, it is searched whether there is an un-replaced original sentence 1 ("device") on the translation side, and the process proceeds to step S1009. If the translated text has the original sentence 1 left therein ("device") in step S1009), the process proceeds to step S1010, and if the translated text has the original sentence 1 left therein without replacement ("device") in step S1010, the display attribute is changed to a preset display attribute (third display attribute), and the third display attribute is also stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1011. In step S1009, when it is determined that the original sentence 1) does not remain in the translated text, the process is terminated. In step S1011, the original sentence 1 ("device") in the translated text is replaced with the new translation ("debasisu") of the work area stored in the RAM23 in step S1004, while maintaining the third display attribute set in advance in step S1010. This third display attribute is included in the setting file stored in the hard disk 28, and is set as a display attribute different from both the first display attribute and the second display attribute included in the setting file.

Here, the display attribute refers to a character color, a font (at least one of type and size), a bold/standard character, a ground color (background color), an italic character, and the like. In this way, the process of changing the display attribute can be executed first, and the process of changing the translation can be executed by one key. The first to third display attributes are stored as different display attributes, (for example, as 3 different background colors or different character colors of bold characters), and the different display attributes are maintained after the uniform replacement, whereby the uniform replacement part can be easily confirmed even after the uniform replacement. The description of fig. 10 is thus completed.

Next, fig. 12 will be explained. Fig. 12 is a general flowchart showing an example of the memory approval application process and the memory update notification process input by the client of the translation support system according to the present invention. Steps S1201 to S1208 of fig. 12 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client B operated by the general translator which is not a primary determiner, steps S1209 to S1212 are processes executed under the control of the respective CPUs 21 of the client a and the client B, and steps S1221 to S1232 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150. Steps S1240 to S1244 of fig. 12 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client C, steps S1251 to S1253 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client a, and steps S1261 to S1263 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client Y operated by the approver.

The following description will take as an example the case when the client B requests approval of a certain translation. In step S1201, the client B requests the approval application screen for the memory, and in step S1221, the management server 150 transmits screen information for displaying the approval application screen for the memory to the client B, and the process proceeds to step S1222 to enter a standby state in which information is received from the client B. In step S1201, translation approval application information (item ID, translator ID, and part of speech, original sentence, and translation) is input to the memory ON the approval application screen, and if it is sensed that the "application" button of the screen is pressed, when all necessary input items are input, the transmission flag is set ON, the transmission flag is stored in the work area in the RAM23, the process proceeds to step S1202, in step S1202, when the transmission flag of the work area in the RAM23 is ON, the process proceeds to step S1203, in step S1203, the operation information is transmitted to the management server 150, the transmission flag of the work area in the RAM23 is set OFF after transmission, and the process proceeds to step S1204.

The translation approval application information is also stored in the hard disk 28 of the client B as the in-application information, and can be referred to as storage information of the approval application in the approval history file 153 on an board described later. Then, in step S1202, when all the items are not input or the approval application operation is not performed, the process proceeds to step S1204. Steps S1203 to S1208 are the same as steps S504 to S508 in fig. 5, and details of the processing in step S1208 and details of the processing in step S1226, which is the processing of the management server 150 corresponding thereto, will be described with reference to the flowchart in fig. 27.

Then, the management server 150 that was in the information reception waiting state receives and stores the information in the work area in the RAM23 in step S1222, and the process proceeds to step S1223. In step S1223, it is determined whether the received information is translation approval application information. If it is determined that the information is translation approval application information, the process proceeds to step S1224, and if it is determined that the information is not translation approval application information, the process proceeds to step S1226, and in step S1226, a process corresponding to the operation on the client side specified by the received information is performed. Details of step S1226 will be described with reference to fig. 27.

In step S1224, using the original sentence as a key, a search is performed as to whether or not an approval application history file 153 (project ID, memory ID, translator ID, part of speech, original sentence, translation, approval translation, approver ID, date of year of approval) has applied for approval for the same original sentence, and if an approval application matching the original sentence is made, the translation and date of year of approval are stored in a work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1225. In step S1225, when the same original sentence and its translation are approved, a message indicating that approval is completed is sent to the client B, and when the same sentence is approved with a different translation, the original sentence, and the query "is approved with a different sentence and is used with the translation? Or do another applications? The message of the' is sent to the client B, and if the response request from the client B is applied additionally, the approval application processing is entered. Details of step S1225 will be otherwise described with reference to the detailed flowchart shown in fig. 13.

The translation approval application information is transmitted to the client a operated by the verifier at one time and is also transmitted to another translator such as the client C, and in step S1240, display attributes (for example, a character color, a background color, a bold character, and the like) of all parts including the same original sentence of the original sentence assumed by the other translator corresponding to the original sentence in the approval application included in the approval information are changed, and the translator can easily notice that the original sentence is in the approval application, thereby suppressing the duplicate approval application. Details of step S1240 will be otherwise described with reference to the detailed flowchart shown in fig. 14.

In step S1251, the client a receives the translation approval application information, and the received translation approval application information is registered in the work file in the approval application of the hard disk 28 and stored in the work area in the RAM23, so that the process proceeds to step S1252. In step S1252, an icon or animation for receiving the translation approval application information is displayed on the screen of the client a, and if an operation of a verifier, that is, an operation of displaying translation approval application information of the verifier is sensed, translation approval application information including a project ID, a part of speech, an original sentence, and a translation requiring approval is displayed, an approval or a denial of the application and a once confirmed translation which is corrected in some cases or a comment requesting the approver to investigate the approved translation is once input by the verifier, and stored in a work area in the RAM23, the process proceeds to step S1253, and once confirmation information (the project ID, the translator ID, the part of speech, the original sentence, the once confirmed translation, and a processing flag) is transmitted to the management server 150. The translation corresponding to the original sentence for which the approval application is made is registered in the shared memory, and the translation is not required to be newly added or corrected. In step S1227, the management server 150 receives the primary confirmation information, stores the primary confirmation information in the work area in the RAM23, adds the received primary confirmation information to the approval application history file 153, and advances the process to step S1228. In step 628, the approval delegation information having the same contents as the one-time confirmation information of the work area stored in the RAM23 is transmitted to the client Y operated by the approver.

In step S1261, the client Y receives the approval request information, stores the information in the work area of the RAM23, and then, if it receives an icon or animation indicating that the memory application information is received and a dialogue screen on which an OK button and a cancel button are displayed, and senses that the OK button is pressed on the dialogue screen, displays an approval input screen (a screen on which approval request information, an approval button, a denial button, a translation input field, a comment input field, and a save button are displayed) including the approval request information, and advances the process to step S1262. In step S1261, instead of the dialog screen, an icon or animation for indicating that approval request information is received may be displayed at a predetermined position such as the right end of the taskbar, and the approval request input screen may be displayed by sensing an operation for selecting the icon or animation.

In step S1262, an approval input screen is displayed, if it is sensed that the save button is pressed in a state where the text is input in the translation input field or the comment input field, an input category for identifying the translation or the comment and the input text are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and if it is sensed that the approval button or the denial button is pressed, an approval flag corresponding to the pressed button is stored in the work area in the RAM 23. In step S1263, approval information (including the project ID, the textual statement, the part of speech, the approval translation, and the processing flag) stored in the RAM23 in the work area is transmitted to the management server 150, and the approval information includes at least an approval flag, the textual statement, the approval translation, an input category (when input to the translation input field or the comment input field) for identifying the corrected approval translation or comment (when the approval translation is corrected, the comment is input as 2, both of which are input as 3), and an input text.

In step S1229, the management server 150 receives the approval information, stores the approval information in the work area in the RAM23, stores a reception time based on the system time, an item ID, an approval flag, an original sentence, a part of speech, an approval translation, a notification flag (initial value is OFF) indicating whether the client has been notified, and a reflection flag (initial value is OFF) indicating whether the approval translation is reflected in each translator ID in each client operated by each translator of the compound sentences in the approval application history file of the approval application history storage section 351 of the hard disk 28 of the management server 150, and advances the process to step S1230. In step S1230, if the approval flag included in the approval information is ON, the shared memory 151 corresponding to the item ID included in the approval information is updated, and the memory update information (including the item ID, the textual statement, the part of speech, the approval translation, and the processing flag) is transmitted to the client a and the client B, and simultaneously, the memory update information is transmitted to the client C. The CPU21 advances the process to step S1231, and in step S1231, the display information of the board indicated by and the board indicated by the common board for each translator is updated using the new approval information (the HTML for displaying the boards indicated by shown in fig. 22 to 24 on the screen of these clients on the management server side). The details of step S1231 will be separately described with reference to the detailed flowchart shown in fig. 21. Then, the process proceeds to step S1232, where an approval notification is transmitted to the client operated by the approval applicant and the client operated by the translator whose approved textual statement is included in the scope of acting as a translation. The details of step S1232 will be separately described with reference to the detailed flowchart shown in fig. 25.

Next, the processing on the client side will be described. In step S1209, the client a and the client B receive the memory update information and store the information in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1210. In step S1210, the

local storage

115 or 125 and the original text corresponding to the item ID are updated using the received memory update information, and the process proceeds to step S1211. The details of step S1210 will be otherwise described with reference to the detailed flowchart shown in fig. 15. In step S1211, the client a and the client B receive the approval notifications, respectively, store them in the work area in the RAM23, display icons or animations indicating that the approval notifications have been received, respectively, at predetermined positions such as a taskbar of the screen, and if these icons or animations are selected with a cursor of a mouse, proceed to step S1212 to display the approval notifications, respectively, on the screens shown in fig. 22 to 24. On the other hand, the client C receives the memory update information in step S1241, stores it in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S1242. In step S1242, the local memory 135 and the original text corresponding to the item ID are updated using the received memory update information, and the process proceeds to step S1243. Details of step S1242 will be described with reference to the detailed flowchart shown in fig. 15. In step S1243, the client C receives the approval notification, stores it in the work area in the RAM23, displays an icon or animation indicating that the approval notification was received at a predetermined position such as a screen taskbar, and if these icons or animations are selected with the cursor of the mouse, advances the process to step S1244 to display the approval notification on the screens shown in fig. 22 to 24. The description of fig. 12 is thus completed.

Fig. 13 is a detailed flowchart showing details when the approval application is received (the detailed processing of step S1222 to step S1225 in fig. 12). The following steps S1301 to S1311 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150. Even if an approval application is made again to the same original sentence from another translator other than the applicant after the first approval due to the omission of the approval information disclosed on the or the like, the original sentence for which the approval application is made is used as a keyword to search the approval application history file 153 stored in the hard disk 28 and storing the application history information, and if the original sentence is approved, the original sentence, the approved translation sentence, and a message such as "the original sentence XXXX has been approved by the translated term YYYY on Δ o month Δ" are displayed on the terminal of the translator who made the re-approval application.

First, the management server 150 receives the information in step S1301, stores it in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S1302. In step S1302, it is determined whether the received information is translation approval application information. If it is determined that the information is translation approval application information (including the item ID, the translator ID, and the part of speech, the original sentence, and the translation), the process proceeds to step S1303, if it is determined that the information is not translation approval application information, the process proceeds to step S1226, and in step S1226, the process corresponding to the operation on the client side specified by the received information is performed.

In step S1303, regarding the same original sentence, the original sentence and the translated sentence of the new translated sentence approval application information are used as keywords, and whether or not an approval application is made in the approval application history file 153 of the approval application history storage unit 351, and if an approval application matching the original sentence exists, the corresponding original sentence, the approval translated sentence, and the date of approval are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and if an approval application matching the original sentence does not exist, a message indicating that the matching original sentence does not exist is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1304. In step S1304, the work area in the RAM23 is referred to, it is determined whether the approval application for the same original sentence is already present in the approval application history file 153, and if it is determined to be present, the process proceeds to step S1305, and if it is determined to be absent, the process proceeds to step 1311. In step S1305, if the approval application resume file 153 has an approval application for the same translation of the same original sentence, the process proceeds to step S1306.

In step S1306, first notification information (for example, "message indicating that" the original sentence XXXX is approved by the translation language YYYY on Δ date "—" this means approved ") is generated and stored in the RAM23, and then transmitted to the client B operated by the translator who made the application. On the other hand, if the translation is not the same in step S1305, the process proceeds to step S1307. In step S1307, information (second notification information) for displaying a confirmation message on the screen of the approval applicant client is generated using the message information read out from the notification storage section 355, and the second notification information (for example, "the original text sentence XXXX is approved in the translation yyy on the date o month Δ, but the translation can be. In step S1308, if the response message from the client B is received, the response message is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1309.

In step S1309, if a response of "approval of the translation" is received from the client operated by the translator, the process returns to step S1301. If the received response is "not agreeing with the translation for approval" (approval application is proposed again), the process proceeds to step S1310. In step S1310, the item of the approval/disapproval flag (initially set to OFF), the item of the processing flag (initially set to OFF), and the information for the intention of reapplication are added to the translation approval application information, third notification information is generated and stored in the work area in the RAM23, and after the third notification information (the reapplication application information on the same textual statement) is generated, the third notification information is stored in the work area in the RAM23 and transmitted from the management server 150 to the client a that has been operated by the validator once. After receiving the third notification information, the client a performs step S1251. In step S1311, fourth notification information as a new approval application in which the item of the approval/disapproval flag (initially set to OFF) and the item of the processing flag (initially set to OFF) are added to the translation approval application information is generated, stored in the work area of the RAM23, and transmitted to the client a operated by the verifier, and the client a executes step S1251 after receiving the third notification information.

The process of the flowchart similar to that of fig. 13 may be executed by the client Y operated by the approver. The following describes the difference. In fig. 13, the approval application history file 153 storing the application history information is stored in the hard disk 28 of the management server 150, but the point of storage in the hard disk 28 of the client Y (or the point of retrieval of the approval application history file 153 of the management server 150 from the client Y) is different. Further, there is a difference in the point that the translation approval application information is directly received from the other client without passing through the management server 150 and is stored in the work area in the RAM23 and then is processed. It is needless to say that the management server 150 may transfer information only to the client a.

Steps S1301 to S1309 are the same except that they are performed by the client Y. The point in step S1310 is that display information for displaying the original sentence, the application translation, and the first message for which the application is approved again is generated and displayed on the client Y screen, and the point in step S1311 is that display information for displaying the original sentence, the application translation, and the second message for which the application is approved newly is generated and displayed on the client Y screen, are different from each other. The display is different in that the message itself indicating that the application is approved again or newly, or indirect information such as an icon or animation indicating that the message is approved again is displayed on the screen of the client Y. Further, even if the messages are communicated with the client operated by the applicant, that is, the steps S1306 to S1308, the messages may be communicated directly between the client operated by the applicant and the client Y operated by the approver, or may be communicated via the management server 150. The description of fig. 13 and its modified example is thus completed.

Next, the flowchart of fig. 14 will be explained. The flowchart of fig. 14 is a flowchart of the processing executed by the client C in fig. 12, showing the details of the original text display attribute changing processing in step S1240 in fig. 12. However, client C is illustrative and may be executed by other clients as well. Each process of steps S1401 to S1409 is a process executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client C. If notification information is received in step S1401, the process proceeds to step S1402, and in step S1402, an icon to the effect that notification information for approval application is received is displayed in, for example, a screen taskbar or widget display area, or in a predetermined position of an application software window, and the process proceeds to step S1403. The display portion is not limited to the above example. Further, instead of the icons, small animations may be displayed.

In step S1403, the operation information is determined. Specifically, for example, it is determined whether or not an operation such as pressing of the left mouse button is performed. If it is determined that the action occurs, the process proceeds to step S1404. In step S1404, if it is determined that the icon indicating that the approval application notification information has been received is selected by clicking the left mouse button, the process proceeds to step S1405. In step S1405, information on which an application is being approved is displayed in a list on an attribute change screen, not shown, similar to the screen shown in fig. 16. The attribute change screen differs from the screen of fig. 16 in that an "attribute change" button is displayed instead of the "update" button. After the attribute change screen is displayed, the process proceeds to step S1406.

In step S1406, if it is sensed that the "attribute change" button is pressed, the process proceeds to step S1407. In step S1407, the display attribute is changed for the original sentence whose mark is input in the check box on the attribute change screen. The display attribute is stored in advance as setting information in the hard disk 28 of each client, and may be changed. In step S1406, when it is sensed that the "attribute change" button is not pressed, the process proceeds to step S1408. If it is determined in step S1408 that an operation other than pressing the "attribute change" button is performed, the process proceeds to step S1409, and if it is determined that no operation is performed, the process returns to step S1403. In step S1409, processing corresponding to the operation is executed. The description of fig. 14 ends up so far.

Next, fig. 15 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the local memory update processing (step S1210 and step S1242 in fig. 12) on the client side. In fig. 15, steps S1521 to S1528 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150, and steps S1501 to S1506 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client B. First, when it is determined at step S1521 that new approval information has been received, the process proceeds to step S1522, at step S1522, a work file including the number, the original sentence, the translated sentence, and the display attribute is generated based on the newly received approval information, and is stored in the work area in the RAM23, the process proceeds to step S1523, at step S1523, the acting range storage unit 353 performs a search using the translator ID and the project ID of the translator included in the approval information of the work area stored in the RAM23 as keywords, the original sentence storage unit 352 performs a search using the original sentence as a keyword for the determined translation acting range, and the search result (the project ID, the translator ID, the paragraph number, the sentence number, and the original sentence) is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1524.

In step S1524, it is determined whether or not the original sentence is included in the original sentence in the translation range to be assumed, based on the search result in step S1523 of the work area stored in the RAM23, and if it is determined that the original sentence is included, the process proceeds to step S1525. In step S1525, the display attribute of the textual statement included in the textual contents of the translation play area is changed to a predetermined display attribute R (for example, the text color is changed to orange), and the process proceeds to step S1527. On the other hand, if it is determined at step S1524 that the original sentence is not included in the original text serving as the translation range, the process proceeds to step S1526. In step S1526, the display attribute of the sentence not included in the text in the translation range is changed to the display attribute P different from the predetermined display attribute R (for example, the character color is changed to purple), and the process proceeds to step S1527. Here, only one of step S1525 and step S1526 is executed, that is, only the display attribute of either step is changed, and in either step S1525 or step S1526, processing for not changing the display attribute may be performed, and in short, it is sufficient if the words included in the translation range and the words not included in the translation range can be easily distinguished from each other.

If it is determined in step S1527 that the search of all the newly received approval information and the change of the display attribute have been completed, the process proceeds to step S1528, and in step S1528, display information (approval list information (original sentence 162, translation sentence 163)) for displaying the screen shown in fig. 16 on the client is generated and transmitted to the client B, and the process is terminated. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S1527 that the search of all the approval information and the update of the display attribute are not completed, the process returns to step S1523. The client B receives the approval list information in step S1501, stores the approval list information in the work area in the RAM23, advances the process to step S1502, displays the screen shown in fig. 16 in step S1502, advances the process to step S1503, determines whether a check mark is input in the check frame 161 of the specific line in step S1503, and advances the process to step S1504 if a check mark is input. In step S1504, the work area stored in the RAM23 and the replacement flag of the approval information corresponding to the checkbox are set to ON, and the process proceeds to step S1505. If the checkmark is not input, the process returns to step S1501. Upon sensing that the screen "update" button 160 in fig. 16 is pressed in step S1505, the process proceeds to step S1506, and in step S1506, the local memory of the client operated by the translator is updated with the memory of the amount of approval information for which the replacement flag has become ON, and the process ends. In step S1506, when it is sensed that the "update" button 160 of the screen is not pressed, the process returns to step S1501. The description of fig. 15 is thus completed.

Next, the following 2 modifications will be described as a method of updating a translation in a translation of a current job to an approved translation, following the update processing of fig. 15 or on the premise of automatic reflection to a local memory. In the 1 st modification, in step S1507 of fig. 15, as shown in fig. 18, the interpretation contents of the original sentence 1802 and the translation 1803 and the check box 1801 are displayed for 1 paragraph or 3 to 5 english sentences before and after, respectively, and a feature different from the list screen of fig. 16 is obtained. Next, the processing on the client side will be described with reference to the flowchart of fig. 17, with respect to the difference from the memory update processing described above. Steps S1721 to S1725 are the same as steps S1521 to S1525 of fig. 15, and their description is omitted here. In step S1726, the translation corresponding to the original is searched for using the paragraph number and the sentence number in the original display information generated in step S1725 as keywords, the original sentence, the original including the original sentence, and the corresponding translation as the search result are output as work files to the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1727. The details of the search processing in step S1726 are the same as the search processing in step S703 in fig. 7. In step S1727, display information including the checkbox 1801 for translation update is generated and output as a work file to the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1728. In step S1728, it is determined whether or not all information searches of the original text serving as the scope are completed. If it is determined that the search is completed, the process proceeds to step S1729, and if it is determined that the search is not completed, the process returns to step S1723.

In step S1729, when there are a plurality of translated sentences updated with respect to 1 sentence, the duplicate original sentence and translated sentence are deleted, display information for displaying the translation display screen including the plurality of update checkboxes 1501 displayed in the 1 sentence display column is generated, and the process proceeds to step S1730. In step S1730, a translation display screen for memory update shown in fig. 18 is displayed, and the process proceeds to step S1731. In the screen of fig. 18, when a plurality of update checkboxes 1801 are displayed in the display field of 1 sentence, information for specifying a reflected sentence (for example, the corresponding letter 1, the corresponding letter 2, or the like) is displayed on, for example, the right side of the checkbox, and the corresponding relation is also displayed immediately after the corresponding original sentence (the corresponding letter 1, the corresponding letter 2, or the like) to clarify the corresponding relation (this part is not shown). Steps S1731 to S1734 are the same as steps S1503 to S1506 of fig. 15, and the description thereof is omitted here. The description of the flowchart of fig. 17 ends up so far.

Next, a2 nd modification will be described with reference to the flowchart of fig. 19 and the screen of fig. 20. In the 2 nd modification, the words with high similarity to 1 to 2 english words before and after the approval word are grouped and displayed, and the process is executed so that all words can be updated in units of groups. In the flowchart of fig. 19, steps S1941 to S1945 are the same as steps S1521 to S1525 of fig. 15, and the description thereof is omitted here.

In step S1946, the corresponding translation is retrieved with the paragraph number and sentence number included in the original display information generated in step S1945 as keywords, and output as a work file to the work area in the RAM23, so that the process proceeds to step S1947. In step S1947, display information of the translation is generated and stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1948, which is the same as step S1527, so that a detailed description is omitted. In step S1948, it is determined whether or not the search for all the original texts and the corresponding translations is completed, and if completed, the process proceeds to step S1949, and if not completed, the process returns to step S1943. In step S1949, a translation including the same translation is retrieved and output to the work file of the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S1950. In step S1950, the work file translations in RAM23 are compared with words or characters of a predetermined number (e.g., 2 to 3 words or 3 to 4 characters) before and after the same translation, and sentences similar to the words or characters of the predetermined number (e.g., 2 to 3 words or 3 to 4 characters) before and after the same translation are set as 1 group, and the work file is arranged in groups of words (or characters) before and after the translation > so that the process proceeds to step S1951. In step S1950, if the translation is english, for example, if "a" is different from "the", the translation is determined to be similar if the following words are the same.

In step S1951, as shown in fig. 20, the screen is displayed with the checkbox 2001 and the original 2002, the translated sentence 2003 and the update button 2000 as 1 set for each group, and even in the 2 nd group, the checkbox 2011 and the original 2012, the translated sentence 2013 and the update button 2010 are displayed, respectively, and the process proceeds to step S1952. The display of the checkbox 2021 and the original 2022, the translated version 2023 and the update button 2020 in group 3 of fig. 20 is different from the screen of fig. 18 in that the memory is updated by pressing the update button in each group. Steps S1952 to S1955 are the same as steps S1503 to S1506 of fig. 15, respectively, and thus the description thereof is omitted. The description of fig. 19 ends up thus far.

Fig. 21 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the board update process (step S1231 in fig. 12), and is a process executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150. In step S2101, HTML information for display on the dashboard at is generated using the received update information, stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2102. In step S2102, the display information of the board is updated using the HTML information in which the common board information is generated. In step S2103, the original text for which each translator acts as a translation is stored in the work area in the RAM23 in accordance with the acting range of each translator stored in the translation acting range table of the management file 1), and the process proceeds to step S2104. In step S2104, it is determined whether or not the process of storing the translated original text in the work area of the RAM23 and the processes in steps S2105 to S2107 have been completed by all the translators, and if not, the process proceeds to step S2105. If the processing of all translators for this time item has ended, the processing ends.

In step S2105, the original sentence of the update information received this time is used to search for the original sentence of the translator 1 person, and if it is determined in step S2106 that the original sentence of the update information received this time is included in the translator original sentence, in step S2107, the board information is updated so that the update information is posted to the board for the translator. By this processing, each translator can refer to only necessary approval information within the scope of its own translation. When referring to the other parts, the necessary original sentences not included in the self translation range can be separately confirmed on the public board, i.e., the approval-completed board. Alternatively, the original sentence (or its translation) included in the translation play range and the original sentence (or its translation) not included in the translation play range may be displayed with different display attributes (for example, different character colors or different background colors).

As shown in fig. 22, the personal signboard and the public signboard are displayed in tab form on the signboard as part of an input editing screen in which an original text display window and a translated text display/input window are arranged in parallel, similarly to the tab browser. Therefore, by moving the cursor to the tab portions (2201 to 2205) and pressing the mouse key, the personal icon and the common icon can be displayed in one-touch switching. The lower screen of fig. 22 shows a display state after the new approval information tab 2201 is selected.

The -model personal board further includes: a "new arrival" approval information display tab 2201 for displaying the memory information newly approved by the approver, i.e., the new arrival approved memory information; an "in-application" tag 2203 for the aforementioned in-application translation of the translation approval application information stored in the hard disk 28; a "deny" tag 2204 for containing an original sentence when the translation information is approved to be changed and a deny translation of the original translation. The public board has an "approved" tab 2202 for approved translation, and the board tab has a "setting" tab 2205 and a "setting" menu, not shown, to select the display format of the memory approval information.

In the "setting" tab 2205 or the "setting" menu, it is possible to set whether or not the original sentence and the translation thereof not included in the original text of the translation target range are displayed on the "new arrival" approval information display tab 2201, and when the original sentence and the translation thereof not included in the original text of the translation target range are displayed, the font display color and the background display color of the original sentence and the translation thereof included in the original text of the target range, and the font display color and the background display color of the original sentence and the translation thereof not included in the original text of the target range can be set. The display time length (for example, 12 hours, 1 day, 2 days, etc.) from the new reception may be set as the new-to-approved memory. In addition, the new-to-approved memory, the in-application memory, and the disapproval memory may set respective display timings (immediately after receiving the notification, 30 minutes 1 time, 1 hour every 3 hours from 9 am, etc.).

Further, as shown in fig. 22, the setting can be performed by using the "setting" label 2205 or the "setting" menu, and the original sentence and the translated sentence newly stored in the memory can be displayed in a flow from right to left in the horizontally long flow display portion 2212 in a roll form.

As shown in fig. 23, a total of 4 narrow and long small windows (long windows displayed so that the navigation windows are displayed on the left and right sides of the main window) are displayed on the left and right sides of the original text display window 2310 and the translation display/input window 2311 which are arranged in parallel on the screen, and only the corresponding original text sentence or both the original text sentence and the translation are displayed on one of the small windows, i.e., the new translation approval small window 2302. The "settings" tab 2205 or "settings" menu can also be used to set the corresponding original sentence or both of the original sentence and the translated sentence on the other 3 widgets, i.e., the translated sentence in approval application window 2303, the translated sentence in approval application window 2301, and the translated sentence in denial display window 2304, respectively. By displaying the translation job in this manner, it is possible to efficiently enter the translation job while appropriately referring to the approved information.

Further, as shown in fig. 24, in addition to the original text display window 2411 and the translation display/input window 2412 which are juxtaposed in the screen 2410, a total of 4 small windows are displayed in the upper, lower, left and right directions on the other screen 2400, and one of the small windows displays only the original text sentence which is newly input to the approval translation 2402 or displays both the original text sentence and the translation. It is also possible to use the "settings" tab 2205 or the "settings" menu to set that only the corresponding original sentence or both the original sentence and the translation are displayed on the other 3 small windows, i.e., the approval application translation 2403, the approval completion translation 2401, and the rejected approval application translation 2404. By displaying this, for example, the screen 2410 for translation work can be enlarged and displayed in front at normal times, and the screen 2401 can be displayed in front when the approved information is appropriately referred to, thereby efficiently entering the translation work.

Fig. 25 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the approval notification processing (step S1232 of fig. 12). If it is determined in step S2500 that the new approval information has been received, the process proceeds to step S2501, and if it is determined that the new approval information has not been received, the process proceeds to step S2507. In step S2501, the applied translation and the approved translation in the translation approval application information are compared, and when the applied translation and the approved translation do not match each other (when the translation is approved for correction), the correction flag is turned ON, and when the applied translation and the approved translation match each other, the correction flag is turned OFF, and the process proceeds to step S2502, where the correction flag is stored in the RAM 23. In step S2502, at least one of the message and the display attribute is read from the notification storage unit 355 in accordance with the difference of the correction flag (presence or absence of translation correction), notification information 3 which is information notifying the original applicant (client B) is generated, and stored in the work area in the RAM 23. The notification information 3) includes an item ID, a part of speech, a textual statement, an approved translation, and a message read from the notification storage section 355. When the correction flag is ON, a message indicating that the translation has been corrected, for example, "translation XXX is corrected and approved as translation YYY" is added to the notification information 3). In addition to or instead of the message indicating that the translated language has been corrected, information for changing the display attribute of the corrected translated language (for example, displayed as red characters) to display or information for determining the display attribute (for example, at least any one of information for determining the display color of characters, information for determining the background color of a portion of characters, and information for determining the font of characters) is generated and included in the notification information 3. The process advances to step S2503.

In step S2503, notification information 3) is transmitted to the client B. In this way, if approved, the original applicant is unconditionally notified, and the process proceeds to step S2504. In step S2504, the processing is diverged according to whether the application is denied. Specifically, when the application is denied (when the approval flag of the work area stored in the RAM23 is OFF), the process proceeds to step S2505, and in step S2505, notification information 4 indicating that the application is denied is generated B (information to be displayed at the denial translation word tab 2204 of fig. 22 or the denial translation word window 2304 of fig. 23 to 24, or the like) is stored in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2507. If the application is not denied (if the approval flag of the work area stored in the RAM23 is ON), the process proceeds to step S2506, and in step S2506, notification information 4 indicating that the application is approved is generated) a, and the process proceeds to step S2507, where the application is stored in the work area of the RAM 23. The notification information 4) a usually contains no message intended to be approved by alteration. This is because it is generally considered that the translator of the applicant does not generally need to know the original application translation other than the approval translation as a result of the approval.

In step S2507, notification schedules for translators other than the translator of the applicant (for example, every 3 hours, 9 am, 1 pm, 5 pm, and the like) are read from the setting file of the hard disk 28, stored in the work area in the RAM23, compared with the system time in step S2508, and it is determined whether or not the notification time has come, and if there is a translator notification schedule for which it is determined that the notification time has come, the process proceeds to step S2509. In the case where the notification time does not arrive in the notification schedule of any translator, the process returns to step S2500. In step S2509, when an option has been designated, the process is advanced to step S2512, which means that approval information of a sentence not contained in the original text translated by the translator himself/herself is also notified.

In step S2512, a notification is also given when a term not included in the original text that the term is assumed to be authorized. In step S2509, when an option is not specified, the process proceeds to step S2510, which means that approval information of a sentence not contained in the original text is also notified. In step S2510, as to whether or not the original sentence included in the approval information is included in the translation-enabling range of the original carried out by the translator, the original file in the original storage unit 352 is searched for in the range based on the translation-enabling range table of the original storage unit 352, the search result is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2511. In step S2511, if the search hits the original sentence (if the search is included in the translation work range), the process proceeds from step S2511 to step S2512, and if the search does not hit the original sentence, the process returns to step S2500. In step S2512, notification information 4 of the work area (notification information sent to a translator other than the approval applicant) stored in the RAM23 is sent to the translator, and the process proceeds to step S2513. In step S2513, the notification status of the notification tag (the item included in the notification information 3, the item included in the notification information 4), and the tag including the notification status) stored in the hard disk 28 is changed from unreinforced to notified, and the process returns to step S2500. The "notification determination means" in claim items such as claim 1 at the beginning of the patent application of the present invention is a processing step in which at least 1 step in step S2508, step S2509, and step S2511 in fig. 25 coincides, and the "notification information generation means" in claim items such as claim 1 at the beginning of the patent application of the present invention is a processing step in which step S2502, step S2504 (which differs depending on the contents of approval) and step S2512 in fig. 25 coincide. According to the processing shown in fig. 25, the translation application result is notified to the client of the applicant, the client other than the applicant, and the like at a desired timing based on the translation target range of each translator and the approval contents including no translation change. The description of fig. 25 is thus completed.

Then, fig. 26 is a detailed flowchart showing details of the reflection check process (whether or not the approved translation is reflected in the translation), and has the following functions: although the translated language approved by the first validator is included in the original text of the translation range of the translator, when the translated language is not corrected by a certain translator even after a predetermined time has passed after the approval, the name and the number of uncorrected parts of the translator are notified to the first validator, and a message for prompting correction is transmitted to the translator corresponding to the first validator according to the operation of the first validator.

Steps S2601 to S2610 are processes executed by the independent process of the management server 150. The management server 150 receives the translation input and edited by each client as appropriate from each client, and stores the translation in the translation project file 152 of the hard disk 28 of the management server 150. Further, as a modification, it is also possible to: the client a, the client B, and the client C, which are operated by the translators, execute under the control of the CPU21 as processes independent of other application software programs.

Note that "notification determination means" in claim items such as claim 1 at the beginning of the patent application of the present invention is a processing step in which at least 1 step in step S2508, step S2509, and step S2511 in fig. 25 corresponds, and "notification information generation means" in claim items such as claim 1 at the beginning of the patent application of the present invention is a processing step in which step S2502 and step S2512 in fig. 25 correspond.

In step S2601, after waiting for a predetermined time, the process proceeds to step S2602. In step S2602, even if the authorized content is notified, the translator does not necessarily immediately reflect the authorized notification content in the translated sentence, and therefore, it is determined whether or not a predetermined confirmation timing comes, for example, whether or not a certain time has elapsed such as 4 hours after the last approval information is received, or whether or not a predetermined confirmation timing has come such as 0 noon and 5 afternoon, and if it is determined that the confirmation timing has come, the process proceeds to step S2603, and if not, the process returns to step S2601. The predetermined confirmation timing is stored in advance in a setting file of the hard disk 28 of the management server 150 for each item ID.

In step S2603, the approval application history file in the approval application history storage unit 351 is searched to determine whether or not there is newly received approval information after the previous confirmation time, and if there is new approval information, the process proceeds to step S2604, and if there is no new approval information, the process returns to step S2601. In step S2604, if there is a sentence that is not already reflected in the translation (i.e., a sentence with 1 reflection flag OFF), the sentence is added to the work file of the hard disk 28, and the process proceeds to step S2605. In step S2605, the original document file of each translation scope is searched for using the original sentence of the new approval information as a keyword based ON the translation scope table of the scope storage unit 353, and the project ID, the original sentence, the approval sentence, and the presence/absence flag (ON when present, OFF when not present) of each translator are stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2606.

In step S2606, if the original sentence of the new approval information is present in the original sentence of the play range of the translator (presence or absence flag is ON), the process proceeds to step S2607, and if there is no original sentence (presence or absence flag is OFF), the process returns to step S2601. In step S2607, the translation files of all translators (translator-compliant) whose presence/absence flag is ON are searched for an approval translation that includes even 1 piece of the received approval information in the translation files of the project ID stored in the work area in the RAM 23. If even 1 approval translation is included, it is determined that the translator who updated the translation file has reflected the approval translation, the "reflection flag" of the translator of the approval information of the original sentence is set to ON, and the process proceeds to step S2608.

In step S2608, the process is performed based on the reflection flag, and when the reflection flag is OFF, the process returns to step S2601, and when the reflection flag is OFF, the process proceeds to step S2609. In step S2609, report information (item ID, translator ID, plain sentence, translation, and message for unreflected) is created to the effect that no translation approved is included, based on the search result. If 1 translation is approved, report information indicating that the translation is reflected (the reflection flag is ON) is generated, and the process proceeds to step S2610. In step S2610, the management server 150 transmits report information to the client a operated by the verifier and the client Y operated by the approver, and returns the process to step S2601. The description of fig. 26 is thus completed.

Fig. 27 is a flowchart showing details of step S1208 and step S1226 on the client side in fig. 12 and step S508 and step S530 on the management server 150 side in the client server type embodiment of the translation assisting system according to the present invention, or step S508 and step S530 on the client side in fig. 5 and step S530 on the management server 150 side, and explains processing corresponding to various operations such as translation selecting operation at the time of translation other than translation approval and notification processing. Next, as an example, the processing executed in step S1208 of the client B and in step S1226 of the management server 150 will be described. In the flowchart of fig. 27, it is set that the authentication process is completed. That is, the user ID and the password are transmitted from the client B to the management server 150, and then the management server 150 refers to the authentication file 533 with the user ID received from the client B as a key, compares the user ID and the password stored in the pair with the received password in the work area received from the client B and stored in the RAM23, determines that the authentication is OK when the passwords match, transmits screen information of the initial screen corresponding to the user ID (HTML format screen information for displaying the initial screen on the screen of the client B), sets an access number, secures the access memory in the work area in the RAM23 of the management server 150, and stores the user ID and the access number in the access memory to complete the authentication process.

The access number is contained in the data communicated with the client B later, before the access is completed, the access number is used for determining the client which makes a request, and when the data is sent to the client, the address of the sending place is determined by using the access number. When the passwords are not consistent, a message indicating that the passwords are not consistent is sent from the management server 150 to the client B to complete the authentication processing. Next, the following processes after the authentication process will be described.

In fig. 27, steps S2702 to S2712 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client B, and steps S2722 to S2735 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150. Solid arrows in the figure indicate control flow, and dashed arrows indicate data flow. The data is displayed with two arrows as it goes back and forth between the client B and the management server 150 (the other flowcharts are the same).

In step S2702, when determining that the transmission flag is ON, the CPU21 of the client B advances the process to step S2703. In step S2703, information such as a file name for specifying a translation file in which a translation is stored or an original file in which an original is stored in the translation item file 152 of the management server 150, and a request for reading out the translation file or the original file are transmitted to the management server 150 as operation information. In step S2722, the management server 150 stores the received operation information in a work area in the RAM23 of the management server 150, and advances the process to step S2723.

In step S2723, when the CPU21 of the management server 150 refers to the work area in the RAM23 and determines that the operation information is a file operation (a read request operation for a translated file or a text file or a save request operation for these files), the process proceeds to step S2724. When it is determined that the file operation is not performed, the process proceeds to step S2725. At step S2724, the selected translation file is read out from the hard disk 28 to a work area in the RAM23 and then transmitted to the client B.

The client B receives the translation file or the original file selected in step S2709 and the result message, which is a message indicating whether the reading of the translation file or the original file is successful or failed, from the management server 150, stores the received translation file and the result message in the work area in the RAM23, displays the result message on the screen, completes the processing of fig. 27, and returns the processing to step S1201 of fig. 12.

Then, in step S2702, the original and the translated sentence are read, and the sentence or sentence in the translated sentence is selected by Ctrl + W/Q or an operation of a mouse key (for example, an operation of pressing a left mouse button, designating a start point of a selection range, dragging the mouse in a right direction, and releasing the left button at an end point of the selection range) from a state where at least a part of the original and the translated sentence is displayed on an original window of the screen (for example, a state where a horizontally long original window is displayed in a lower part of the screen and a horizontally long translated sentence window is displayed in an upper part of the screen). When a sentence or a sentence in the selection range is an untranslated original sentence in a translation and such a selection operation is performed, the process proceeds from step S2702 to step S2704, and the No determination from step S2704 proceeds to step S2708 via the No determination from step S2706.

In step S2708, a plurality of sentences (articles) may be selected, but since the TME mode cannot be entered directly in a state where a paragraph mark or a sentence end mark is crossed (a state where a selection range relates to a plurality of paragraph ranges, or a state where a selection range crosses a plurality of sentences and the end of the selection range does not coincide with a sentence end mark (for example, ". or an english terminator."), the end of the selected portion is automatically corrected to a cut state with the paragraph mark or the sentence end mark, and the process returns to step S1202.

When the operation of pressing the space key (mode switching operation) is again sensed in step S2702 in the state where the selection flag is ON, the process proceeds to step S2704, and a determination is made in step S2704 as Yes, the process proceeds to step S2705, the editing mode is changed to the TME mode, the changed editing mode is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process returns to step S1202.

In step S2702, upon sensing that the selection range indication key (e.g., → key) is pressed in the state where the processing mode is the TME mode, the process proceeds to step S2706 via step S2704 (No).

In step S2706, upon sensing that the selection range indication key (e.g., left mouse button or → key) is pressed (Yes) in the TME mode, the process proceeds to step S2707.

In step S2707, the selected character string or sentence and the selection flag indicating that the search is requested are ON, the information of the transmission flag ON is stored in the work area in the RAM23, the processing returns to steps S1202 to S1204 to S1207 to S1208, the processing returns to step S2702, it is determined that the transmission flag is ON (there is an update request operation or a search request operation: Yes), and the processing proceeds to step S2703.

In step S2703, the operation information including the character string of the selection range and the search request is transmitted to the management server 150, and then the transmission flag is turned OFF. At step S2722, the management server 150 receives the operation information and adds the operation information to the work area in the RAM23, adds the character string of the selection range included in the operation information to the history information 920, advances the process to step S2725 via step S2723(No), determines that the operation information is a search request (Yes) based ON the selection flag ON in the operation information stored in the work area in the RAM23 at step S2725, and advances the process to step S2726. In step S2726, the shared memory 151 is searched for by using the character string in the selected range as a keyword, list information of translation candidates found in the search is stored in a work area in the RAM23, the process proceeds to step S2727, and in step S2727, list information of translation candidates is transmitted to the client. The details of the search processing will be described with reference to fig. 28. When it is determined at step S2723 that the file operation is performed, that is, when the CPU21 of the management server 150 refers to the work area in the RAM23 and determines that the operation information is a file operation (a read request operation for a translation file or a save request operation for a file), the process proceeds to step S2724.

At step S2724, the selected translation file is read out from the hard disk 28 to a work area in the RAM23 and then transmitted to the client B. The client B receives the translation file and the result message indicating the selection from the management server 150 in step S2709, stores the received translation file and result message in the work area in the RAM23, displays the result message on the screen, and returns the process to step S1201 in fig. 12. In step S1201 in fig. 12, the translation file stored in the RAM23 is displayed on the screen, and the process proceeds to step S2702. When it is determined at step S2725 that the search request is not (No), the process proceeds to step S2728.

At step S2728, it is determined whether or not the information received at step S2722 is report information. For the report information transmission from the client side, refer to step S2609 in fig. 26. If it is determined that the notification information is the one, the process proceeds to step S2729, and the received notification information is transmitted to the client a operated by the first confirmer and the client Y operated by the approver, and the process returns to step S2722 (this part of the arrow is not shown in the flowchart). If it is determined that the notification information is not the report information, the process proceeds to step S2731.

In step S2731, it is determined whether the operation information received in step S2722 is a replacement request. If it is determined that the request is a replacement request, the process proceeds to step S2732. In step S2732, a replacement process is performed. Specifically, the selected portions of the translation appearing after the selected position of the current sentence of the translation are collectively replaced with the selected translation candidates, history information 920 (see fig. 28) storing the operation histories of the translators is updated, and text information for updating the selected portion of the translation display window of the client B by the replacement is transmitted to the client B, and the process returns to step S1222. In step S2711, the client B receives the text information, and updates the display of the portion specified by the "range specification processing" of the translation display window by the received text information. If it is determined in step S2731 that the request for replacement is not made, the process proceeds to step S2734.

The setting/data conversion processing in step S2734 means various setting processing such as priority setting processing between the local memories 940 shown in fig. 28 (the processing of fig. 27 corresponds to the local memory 125 of the client B when the processing of fig. 27 is performed in step S1208 of fig. 12, and the processing of fig. 27 corresponds to the local memory 115 of the client a when the processing of fig. 5 is performed) and the shared memory 151, and conversion processing for converting various data into a data format used internally in the present system, for example. The details of the conversion process will be described with reference to fig. 29 described later. After the execution of these various processes, the process proceeds to step S2735, and the result message of the setting process or the conversion process is transmitted to the client, and the process proceeds to step S2712 of the client B in which the result information waiting state is performed, and the result message is displayed on the screen of the client B. The description of fig. 27 is thus completed.

Next, details of step S2726 (search processing) and step S2732 (replacement processing) in fig. 27 and their related parts will be described with reference to the flowchart in fig. 28. Step S2726 in fig. 27 corresponds to the processing (processing corresponding to the operation) in step S1226 on the management server 150 side in fig. 12 or the processing in step S530 on the management server 150 side in fig. 5. In the flowchart of fig. 28, as an example, steps S2801 to S2806 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client B. Steps S2821 to S2837 are processes executed under the control of the CPU21 of the management server 150.

In step S2821, the history information 920 is searched using the original sentence and the item ID, which are the range-specified character string stored in the work area in the RAM23 in step S2722 in fig. 27, as a keyword, and the search result is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2822. In step S2822, if the search result of the work area stored in the RAM23 corresponds to the search condition (when the range-specified character string and item ID are specified) (when the search hit occurs), the process proceeds to step S2826. If the search is not hit (the number of times the search condition is matched is zero), the process proceeds to step S2823. Even if the search in step S2822 hits, the process may be advanced to step S2823 to store the search result of the history information 920 and the search result of the shared memory 151, which are two search results, in the work area of the RAM 23. In step S2823, the shared memory 151 is searched using the character string and the item ID specified in the range as the key, the search result is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and if the search hits, the process proceeds to step S2826. If the search is not hit, the process proceeds to step S2825. In step S2825, the basic dictionary data is searched for by using the character string specified in the range as the keyword, the search result is stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2826.

In step S2826, when the search hits, the search results are sorted in descending order of the last use date, the entry date, and the like of the memory items, and stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2827. In any of step S2821, step S2823, and step S2825, if the search is not hit, an error message indicating that there is no translation corresponding to the character string specified by the range is stored in the work area of the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2827. In step S2827, screen information for display on the screen of the client B is generated using the search result of the work area or the error message stored in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2828, where the screen information is transmitted to the client B as translation candidate list information (or error message). In step S2801, the client B receives the translation candidate list information (or error message), displays it as a pull-down list on the screen, and advances the process to step S2802. In step S2802, if the search result is present (if the corresponding translation is present), the process proceeds to step S2803. If the search result does not exist (if an error message exists), or if an operation to cancel the display state of the drop-down list is sensed, the process returns to step S1202 in fig. 12.

In step S2803, it is determined whether or not there is an operation to select a translation candidate in the pull-down list, and if there is an operation to select a translation, selection information indicating the content of the operation (including the translation candidate itself, information to specify the translation candidate, and replacement type information indicating whether to replace the corresponding portion collectively or individually) is stored in a work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S2804, and if there is no operation to select a translation, the process returns to step S2801. In step S2804, selection information for determining the selected translation is transmitted to the management server 150. In step S2829, the management server 150 receives the selection information, stores it in the work area in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S2830. In step S2830, the translation of the work area stored in the RAM23 is subjected to replacement processing (collective replacement or individual replacement) using the selection information, and the processing proceeds to step S2831. In step S2831, screen information for displaying the updated translation on the screen is transmitted to the client B on which the translation replacement result is reflected, and the process proceeds to step S2832. In step S2805, the client B updates the translation display field of the screen using the screen information of the work area received and stored in the RAM23, and advances the process to step S2806. In step S2806, the latest usage time of the translated language determined to have been selected in step S2803 in the local memory of the hard disk 28 of the client B is updated, and the process returns to step S1202 in fig. 12. In this way, even when the shared memory 151 of the management server 150 is set to the first priority bit, the latest time of use of the local memory is updated, and the following cases are generally considered: the present invention is applicable to a case where a problem such as a network failure occurs even when a shared memory is used, a case where a shared memory is not always connected to a network, and the like.

Here, the description returns to the processing on the management server 150 side. In step 2832, the history information 920, which stores the operation information of each client, the selected translation, and the like in the hard disk 28, is updated in accordance with the translation specified by the selection information received in step S2829, the original sentence, which is the text string specified in the range of the work area stored in the RAM23, and the item ID, and the process proceeds to step S2833. In step S2833, the shared memory 151 is searched using the original sentence and the translation specified by the selection information, all translations corresponding to the original sentence are stored in the work area in the RAM23, the process proceeds to step S2834, in step S2834, it is determined whether the translation specified by the selection information is an approved translation of the category M (determination unit 444), and when the translation matches the approved translation, the process returns to step S1222 of fig. 12.

If the translation specified by the selection information does not match the approved translation, the process proceeds to step S2835, and in step S2835, attention information including: selecting a translator ID of a translator of a translation inconsistent with the approved translation; a textual statement; a translation determined by the selection information; and a message intended to use a translation inconsistent with the approved translation. In step S2836, the attention information is transmitted to the client Y operated by the approver and the client a operated by the single confirmer, and then the process returns to step S1222 of fig. 12.

When it is determined in step S2810 or step S2813 that the ESC key is pressed by the client a, the process proceeds to step S2814, operation information is transmitted to the management server 150 in step S2814, screen information for updating the client screen is transmitted from the management server 150 (step S2729 or step S2730 in fig. 27), and the screen is updated by the client a in step S2812, so that the pull-down list in the source window disappears. The description of fig. 28 is completed, and the description returns to fig. 27. Thereafter, the CPU21 of the client a returns the process from step S2711 to step S501 or step S1202.

Next, the flowchart of fig. 11 will be explained. The flowchart of fig. 11 is a modification of the so-called independent start-up type process of the flowchart of fig. 27. The processing in fig. 11 is processing performed by the client side in accordance with operations other than memory registration and memory application between the client side and the management server 150 side. In fig. 11, step S27XX of fig. 27 corresponds to step S11XX of fig. 11, respectively, except that step S2703 and step S2722 of fig. 27 are not included, except that step S1123 to step S1135 of fig. 11 are executed by the client, in contrast to step S2722 to step S2735 of fig. 27 being executed by the management server 150, and the resultant product of the job, i.e., the individually registered local storage and the translation file described in the supplementary note, are uploaded to the management server at a separate stage of the job. The present embodiment is useful when the speed of the line (network 100) to the management server 150 is low, and when the line is used in a state where the line is not connected in general. The description of fig. 11 is thus completed.

Fig. 29 is a schematic diagram showing details of the original text/translated text simultaneous editing process, and is a process corresponding to a part of step S1208 in fig. 12 or step S508 in fig. 5. The simultaneous editing processing here means that either one of the original and translated texts can be displayed or edited (on the translated text window side) in a series of operations in a state where both the original and translated texts are displayed (for example, in respective windows), and does not mean that the timing is "simultaneous".

When the simultaneous editing function is executed, the original text window and the translated text window are displayed on the display screen using the screen information (layout information of the screen) read from the shared memory 151.

(1) The editing control unit 2940 senses an input of the keyboard 26 or an operation of the mouse 27 by the user 30, determines whether the operation is an editing operation or an input corresponding to the original text window, an editing operation or an input corresponding to the translated text window, or a data conversion operation for instructing to read and store external data, using the operation contents and cursor position information of the mouse 27, and executes data conversion processing by the Adaptor2910 or various editing processing based on the input or the operation.

(2) When the determined operation is an operation to read external data, the general file 2901 such as an MS-Word file, a text file, an HTML file, and a PDF file is converted into the internal model 2920 by the data conversion function of the Adaptor2910 via the editing control unit 2940, and the editing control unit 2940 senses an input of a command to convert the read data by the keyboard 26 or the mouse 27. Further, the internal model 2920 is converted into the translation support system dedicated file 2902 by the data conversion function of the Adaptor2930 and stored as a part of the translation project file 152 of the hard disk 28 via the editing control unit 2940, and the editing control unit 2940 senses an input for a command to be stored by the keyboard 26 or the mouse 27.

(3) In the simultaneous editing method, the editing control unit 2940 determines whether the editing operation (correction operation such as input operation, deletion, insertion, or the like) is an editing operation corresponding to one of the original text window and the translated text window, reflects the corrected original text and the translated text in the internal model (performs update corresponding to the operation), and reflects the result of the editing operation in the original text and the translated text, respectively, to update the display of the original text window display control unit 2950 or the translated text window display control unit 2960. The description of fig. 29 is thus completed.

Fig. 30 is a diagram showing an example of a detailed flowchart of the period expansion and contraction process in the TME scheme, and is a process corresponding to part of step S2707 in fig. 27 or part of step S1208 and step S1226 in fig. 12. The processing of fig. 30 is processing executed under the control of the CPU21 of the client B and the CPU21 of the management server 150.

In step S3001, when the client B senses that Shift + - >/← or Ctrl + - >/← has been operated in the TME mode, operation information (information indicating that a selection range has been performed and a range specifying operation has been performed) is transmitted to the management server 150, the management server 150 stores the operation information in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S3002. In step S3002, a memory search is performed using the characters in the selected range as keywords. In this way, the search range can be adjusted according to the selection range. After the search result is stored in the work area in the RAM23, the process proceeds to step S3003.

Thereafter, every time the selection range is adjusted, the memory search is performed again for the local memory, and translation candidates (a plurality of translation candidates) that are the matching results are stored in the work area in the RAM 23. In step S3003, it is determined whether or not there is a matching (match) item, and if there is a matching item, the process proceeds to step S3004.

In step S3003, if there is no matching item, the process proceeds to step S3006. In step S3004, the information of the matching items in the work area stored in the RAM23 is kept unchanged, and the process proceeds to step S3005, and in step S3005, when there are a plurality of matching translations in the management server 150, the information of the aligned translations is transmitted to the client B in the order of use date > update date > use frequency, and the first order item in the received translations is displayed on the client B side, and the process proceeds to step S3007. In step S3007, the characters in the selected range are displayed with high luminance, and the process is completed. If there is no memory item in the local memory 940 that matches a word located in the selection range in step S3003, the process proceeds to step S3006, and the original text is displayed directly in the TME window, thereby completing the process. The description of fig. 30 ends up so far.

Fig. 31 is a diagram showing 1 example of a detailed flowchart of the overall longest match search process in the client B and the management server 150, which corresponds to step S1208 and step S1226 in fig. 12 (step S2726 in fig. 27). In the figure, client B performs a translation job. Here, the memory of the first bit of the priority bit of the client B is the shared memory 151 of the management server 150.

First, in step S3101, the management server 150 searches the local memory 940 for the client B of the individual registration information storage unit 354 using, as a key, the characters of the selection range in the work area previously received from the client B as the operation information and stored in the RAM23 of the management server 150, and advances the process to step S3102. In step S3102, it is determined whether or not a translation corresponding to the character in the selection range is stored in the local memory 940, and if a corresponding translation is stored, the process proceeds to step S3103, and if a corresponding translation is not stored, the process proceeds to step S3106.

In step S3103, the characters in the selected range and the translation (all of the matching ones) of the search result are separately stored in the work area in the RAM23, and the process proceeds to step S3104. In step S3104, when a plurality of translated words are stored, the translated words are arranged in the order of use date > update date > use frequency (in the optimum order), and information on the arranged translated words is transmitted to the client B, and the process proceeds to step S3107. In step S3107, the remaining part of the characters in the selection range that does not match the local memory is stored again as the character string in the selection range in the work area in the RAM23, and the process returns to step S3102.

Thus, a state in which a part of the original sentence is replaced and a part of the original sentence is left as it is called Node decomposition. The Node decomposition means that, for example, if the original text is "intrinsic" and "typical" is stored in the memory, the "intrinsic" is replaced with "typical" to be "a-typical", and the Node decomposition is performed into two nodes of "a" and "typical". On the other hand, if no matching translation is stored in step S3102, the process proceeds to step S3106, and if 1 character is stored in step S3106, it is determined whether the character in the selection range in the work area stored in the RAM23 is 1 character, the process proceeds to step S3105, and if not 1 character, the process proceeds to step S3108. That is, the search completion condition is a timing when the cut character disappears. In step S3105, when the search character string is two-word-across, the remaining original text that has been cut by Node decomposition is displayed as it is, and the processing is completed. On the other hand, if the number of characters in the selection range is not 1 character in step S3106, the process proceeds to step S3108. In step S3108. The characters of the selection range stored in the work area in the RAM23 are shortened by 1 character from the head (1 character is deleted from the head), and the process returns to step S3101. The description of fig. 31 ends up.

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Next, another embodiment of the translation support system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the system configuration diagram of fig. 32 and the flowcharts of fig. 33 and 34. In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 32, the client a is burdened with a function as a translator and a function as an approver. Therefore, the flowchart of fig. 33 showing the memory registration and collection processing in other embodiment 1 is different from the flowchart of fig. 5 in the following points. First, the processing steps of fig. 33, which coincide with steps S561 to S563 of fig. 5 for approval by the client Y, disappear. This is because, in the flowchart of fig. 33, since the approver itself performs the memory registration, it is not necessary to re-execute the approval application. Next, when the memory information executed by the management server is received, the processing of steps S524 to S527 transferred to the client Y also disappears.

Again, the detailed processing of the unstable translation search/notification in step S532 of fig. 5, that is, the processing in fig. 7, step S722 to step S723, step S708 to step S709, and step S741 disappear, and the flow proceeds from step S721 directly to step S742, which is different from the point that step S742 to step S743 are executed by the client a.

The rest of the processing is substantially the same as the rest of the processing except for the difference in step numbers and the difference in the execution order of some steps. That is, steps S3301 to S3312 of fig. 33 respectively correspond to steps S501 to S512 of fig. 5. Steps S3321 to S3323 of fig. 33 respectively correspond to steps S521 to S523 of fig. 5. Step S3324 of fig. 33 corresponds to step S529 of fig. 5. Although step S3325 in fig. 33 corresponds to step S528 in fig. 5, the point of returning from step S3325 to step S3322 is different from fig. 5. Steps S3326 to S3328 of fig. 33 respectively correspond to steps S530 to S532 of fig. 5. This embodiment is suitable for translation projects that are small in number. When a person who confirms once needs a considerable amount of investigation in the case of a patent in a brand-new field, for example, the person can ask an external consultant Z or an expert by telephone or facsimile or directly speak, and can specify a translation based on the advice and answer, as shown in fig. 32.

Next, the flowchart of fig. 34 showing the memory approval application and the memory update notification processing in other embodiment 1 is different from the flowchart of fig. 12 in the following points. First, steps S1261 to S1263 performed by the client Y in fig. 12 disappear, steps S1251 to S1253 performed by the client a in fig. 12, and steps S3451 to S3453 performed by the client Y operated by the approver in fig. 34. Accordingly, step S3452 of fig. 34 becomes "approval/disapproval input" as opposed to step S1252 of fig. 12 being "one-time confirmation input". Likewise, step S1253 of fig. 12 is "transmit one-time confirmation information", and becomes "transmit approval information" in step S3453 of fig. 34. The step for transfer corresponding to step S1227 and step S1228 in fig. 12 disappears in the process of fig. 34, and the confirmation information is added once to the approval application history information file 153 originally executed in step S1227 in fig. 12, and is executed as the addition of the approval information to the approval application history information file 153 in step S3427 in fig. 34.

The rest of the processing is different in step number and substantially the same. That is, steps S3401 to S3412 in fig. 34 correspond to steps S1201 to S1212 in fig. 12, respectively. Steps S3421 to S3426 of fig. 34 correspond to steps S1221 to S1226 of fig. 12, respectively. Steps S3427 to S3430 of fig. 34 correspond to steps S1229 to S1232 of fig. 12, respectively. Steps S3440 to S3444 of fig. 34 conform to steps S1240 to S1244 of fig. 12.

However, the difference is that, in fig. 12, steps S1209 to S1212 are processes performed by the client a and the client C, respectively, and in fig. 34, steps S3409 to S3412 are processes performed by the client B. Further, another difference is that, in fig. 12, steps S1240 to S1244 are processes performed by the client C, and in fig. 34, steps S3440 to S3444 are processes performed by the client a and the client C. Although steps S3451 to S3453 of fig. 34 correspond to steps S1251 to S1253 of fig. 12, since the different meanings of the input contents have already been explained, the explanation thereof is omitted here. The description of fig. 34 is completed, and the description of the other embodiment 1 is also completed.

[ other example 2]

Next, a modified example of the present invention will be described with reference to the system configuration diagram of fig. 35. Fig. 35 is a system configuration diagram of a modification of the translation support system of the present invention. The difference from the system configuration diagram of fig. 1 is that the server is divided into 3. That is, in fig. 1, the hard disk 28 of the management server stores the approval application history 153, the shared memory 151, and the translation project file 152, and each application program is read from the hard disk 28 to the RAM23 and executed. In contrast, in the translation assisting system shown in fig. 35, the application management server 3530 can communicate with the storage management server 3520 and the project management server 3540, and the clients, through the network 100. Further, the application management server 3530 stores the application program 3531 in the hard disk 28, and reads out the application program 3531 from the hard disk 28 as appropriate to the RAM23 for execution. The application management server 3530 stores the approval application history file 153 in the hard disk 28, and searches the approval application history file 153 or adds new translation approval application information based on the operation information and other various information received from each client.

Further, the application management server 3530 transmits a search request to the shared memory 151 or the individual memory 3521 of the memory management server 3520 based on the operation information and other various information received from the respective clients, receives search result information from the memory management server 3520, and executes the processing of the next step based on the search result information. The login information is transmitted to the shared memory 151 or the individual memory 3521 of the memory management server 3520 in order to add new memory information, and then login result information (login success/login failure) is received from the item management server 3540, and the next step of processing, such as notification processing, is executed based on the received login result information. Or to update memory information already in these memories.

Similarly, the application management server 3530 transmits a search request for the translation project file 152 of the project management server 3540 to the project management server 3540 based on the operation information and other various information received from the clients, and receives search result information from the project management server 3540. Alternatively, the application management server 3530 transmits registration information so as to add new information to the translation project file 152 of the project management server 3540, receives registration result information (normal end/abnormal end) from the project management server 3540, and executes the processing of the next step based on the received registration result information. Alternatively, the application management server 3530 transmits update information for the project management server 3540 to update information already in the translation project file 152, and the project management server 3540 updates information already in the translation project file 152. Then, the application management server 3530 receives the update result information (update success/update failure) from the project management server 3540, and performs the processing of the next step based on the received update result information.

In short, the application management server 3530 serves as a control tower for 3 servers, and the storage management server 3520 and the project management server 3540 function as network cloud storages via the network 100. The present invention also includes a case in which the storage management server 3520 and the project management server 3540 are configured as 1 box. In the flowchart, when the management server 150 of the original embodiment performs the search, addition, and update processing of each file, in this modification, a step of transmitting and receiving various request information (a search request, an information addition request, and an information update request) and various result information (a search result, a registration result, and an update result) via the network 100 is added between the application management server 3530 and the storage management server 3520 or the project management server 3540, and the other parts are not substantially changed.

The present invention also includes a configuration in which the approval application history file 153 is stored in the hard disk 28 of an application history management server (not shown) other than the application management server 3530. In this case, the application management server 3530 and the application history management server are configured to transmit and receive various request information (search request, information addition request, information update request) and various result information (search result, registration result, update result) via the network 100, and the other parts are not substantially changed. The description of the other embodiment 2 is completed.

[ other example 3]

Next, another modification of the present invention will be described with reference to the system configuration diagram of fig. 36. Fig. 36 is a system configuration diagram of a modification of the translation support system of the present invention. The difference from the system configuration diagram of fig. 1 is that the server is divided into 3 servers, and the client a is not a primary validator but a client operated by a translation professional. These 2 different points have been described in the other embodiment 1 and the other embodiment 2, but the other embodiment 3 is a combination of these, and the points different from the flowcharts described above are also described separately, and since the following two points, that is, the point where there is no step of approving the communication between the client a and the management server 150 in the process, and the point where there is a step of the communication between the application management server 3530 and the other 2 servers are the same, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. This concludes the description of the other embodiment 3

[ other example 4]

In the above-described steps S703, S711, and S1002 of fig. 10, the original sentence newly and individually registered in the memory individual registration information storage unit 354 of the self-registration amount and the translated language corresponding to the original sentence are used, and the existence of the sentence corresponding to the original sentence is specified, including the judgment of the existence of the sentence division, based on the paragraph number and the sentence number, and then the search is performed for the existence of the original sentence individually registered in the entire original sentence and the existence of the translated language corresponding to the original sentence by using the well-known morpheme analysis method, thereby performing the examination of the instability of the translated language. However, this method has such disadvantages that: the premise is that paragraph numbers are added to the original text and the translated text respectively, and when the paragraph numbers are not added to the original text provided by a customer, the paragraph numbers need to be added through programs such as a macroinstruction. On the contrary, this method has such advantages that: even when each translator does not register in the individual registration information storage unit 354 or the local memory of each client (typically, when the translation is directly input to the translation without performing a memory registration operation), it is possible to detect that the translation is unstable.

Instead of this method, it is also possible to employ an embodiment in which: simply by comparing whether or not the original sentence and the translation corresponding to the original sentence in the individual registered memory of each translator match the same original sentence and translation corresponding to the original sentence in the shared memory 151, if the translation of a certain individual registered memory does not match the translation of the shared memory 151 for the same original sentence, notification information is sent as the translation is unstable. Further, a method may be adopted in which: the original sentence and the translated word corresponding to the original sentence registered in the memory for a certain translator are compared with not only the shared memory 151 but also the individual registered memories for all the other translators. These methods are slightly less accurate, but reduce the processing load. Furthermore, such an embodiment may also be employed that: when there is no translated language corresponding to the original sentence, the notification information is sent as the translated language unstably, and thus, the sentence division determination is not necessary. A translation support system using a method for determining the instability of translation of at least one of them is also included in the present invention.

[ other examples 5]

Next, as another embodiment 5, details of step S2726 (search processing) and step S2732 (replacement processing) in fig. 27 and a modification of the related portion will be described with reference to the flowchart in fig. 37. The flowchart of fig. 37 is a modification of the flowchart of fig. 28, except that a part of the processing performed by the management server 150 in fig. 28 is shifted to the client side. Steps S3701 to S3706, which are the processing on the client side in fig. 37, correspond to steps S2801 to S2806 in fig. 28, respectively. Steps S3721 to S3732, which are the processes on the management server 150 side in fig. 37, correspond to steps S2821 to S2832 in fig. 28, respectively.

The processing in fig. 37 and the processing in fig. 28 are only two points, that is, the point at which the client side transmits the search request of the shared memory 151 to the management server 150 in step S3707, the point at which the management server 150 executes the search of the shared memory 151 in step S3733 and immediately transmits the search result to the client to return the processing to step S1222, and the point at which the client side receives the search result in step S3707 and returns the processing to step S1202 are different, and the point at which the processing returns to step S1202 after steps S3708 to S3710 and steps S2834 to S2836 executed by the management server 150 in fig. 28 are executed later, and therefore, detailed description thereof is omitted. Note that, the attention information from the client is transmitted to the client a and the client Y in one operation by the verifier via the management server 150, but may be directly transmitted to the client a and the client Y, or may be transmitted to either one of the clients.

[ other examples 6]

The present invention described in the above embodiments also includes a case where each application program of the control management server 150 or the application management server 3530 and each client executes each flowchart described in fig. 5 to 7, and fig. 9 to 15, fig. 17, fig. 19, fig. 21, fig. 25 to 31, fig. 33 to 34, and fig. 37, and screen information for HTML displayed on the client-side screens shown in fig. 8, 16, 18, 20, and 22 to 24, when the control program is provided to the management server 150 and each client and executed via a storage medium or a communication medium communicating via a communication line, or when the control program is executed by a stand-alone computer or a terminal (so-called independent start type), in the above case, the steps for performing communication between the client and the management server 150 may be performed by replacing the communication steps with so-called interprocess communication. Alternatively, each step of performing these communications may be omitted and executed as a single process.

[ other examples 6]

In the above-described embodiment, for example, a portion where display is reversed by pressing the left mouse button, dragging to the right (downward if the original text is displayed vertically), and releasing the left button is set as a selection range (scope), the longest match search as a whole corresponding to the selection range is executed, and one or more corresponding translations (sentences in the selection range of the original text if they are not matched) are displayed in the drop-down list. The translation candidates in the pull-down list are displayed, and the longest matching search is performed for each time as the selection range is extended, and the matching translation candidates are displayed. That is, it is also possible to store all translations matching the longest matching search at each position of the drag operation in the work area in the RAM23 and display all translations in the drop-down list.

At this time, the translation candidate a and the translation candidate B are searched for by the longest match at the cursor position (1) by the drag operation, and then the drag operation is performed, and when the translation candidate C and the translation candidate D are searched for by the longest match at the cursor position (2), the translation candidate C, the translation candidate D, the translation candidate a, and the translation candidate B are displayed in the drop-down list. Here, the translation candidate C and translation candidate D of the post-hit are displayed on the top, and translation candidate a and translation candidate B are displayed on the bottom (read out in reverse from the work area in RAM 23). Of course, in the drop-down list, the translation candidate a and the translation candidate B may be displayed on the upper side, and the translation candidate C and the translation candidate D may be displayed on the lower side. The translation candidates a to D may be a single word or may be composed of a plurality of words (including phrases and periods).

[ other examples 7]

The longest match search in the forward direction is performed from the first selected position of the scope in accordance with the scope (reverse display range) of the selected range, and the hit translation candidates are stored in the work area in the RAM23 and displayed in plural numbers in the drop-down list (displayed in plural numbers as the selected position is enlarged). The total number of translation candidates displayed is, for example, 40 (40 lines), and when the selection range is extended from left to right, the newly hit translation candidate is displayed on the top of the drop-down list, and more than 40 old translation candidates are not displayed. The 40 sets can be changed within a predetermined value range (for example, within 100 sets at maximum), and the setting values are stored as part of the setting information files in the client application folder in the hard disk 28 of each client.

[ other example 8]

As the selection range is extended, the entire longest matching search is performed one by one, and the matching translation candidates are displayed in the drop-down list. That is, for example, the left mouse button may be pressed at a specific position of the original text to designate the start point of the selection range, the mouse may be dragged to the right, and when the dragging operation is stopped for a predetermined time (for example, 0.5 seconds or more), the memory search may be executed again to display the translation candidates corresponding thereto.

That is, the memory search may be performed only when the stop determination is Yes, by adding a step of sensing the cursor position caused by the mouse drag operation and determining that the cursor position is stopped when the cursor position does not change or changes only by a certain value or less (for example, the change of the X coordinate and the Y coordinate is 5 or less) within a predetermined time. In this case, only translation candidates hit in the immediately preceding memory search may be displayed in the drop-down list, and all translations matching the longest matching search at each position of the drag operation may be stored in the work area of the RAM23 and displayed in the drop-down list. The predetermined time or the predetermined value of the coordinate change is also stored as a part of the setting information file in the client application folder of the hard disk 28.

[ other example 9]

The present invention described in the above embodiments also includes a case where each application program of the control management server 150 or the application management server 3530 and each client executes each flowchart described in fig. 5 to 7, and fig. 9 to 15, fig. 17, fig. 19, fig. 21, fig. 25 to 31, fig. 33 to 34, and fig. 37, and HTML screen information displayed on the client screens shown in FIGS. 8, 16, 18, 20, and 22 to 24, when the HTML screen information is provided to the management server 150 and the clients through a storage medium and a communication medium communicating via a communication line, and when the HTML screen information is executed by a stand-alone computer and a terminal (so-called independent start-up type), in the above case, the steps for performing communication between the client and the management server 150 may be performed by replacing the communication steps with so-called interprocess communication. Alternatively, each step of performing these communications may be omitted and executed as a single process. The present invention also includes a control method in which each control procedure for executing the control program described in these flowcharts is executed by the management server 150 and each client or by a stand-alone computer (PC) and a screen is displayed.

If an example is enumerated, the processing of the client a operated by the translator and the processing of the management server 150 are executed by the same hardware, and are also included in the present invention. In this case, the message exchange via the network 100 between the client a and the management server 150 in the above flowcharts is replaced by, for example, inter-process communication between the client a and the management server 150. The present invention is also implemented by reading the storage medium into the management server 150 and each client or stand-alone computer (PC) to execute the control program, and the computer-readable storage medium itself storing the control program and the information on the display screen is also included in the present invention.

< appendix description >

An application management server shown in fig. 35, which is an application management server of a translation assisting system, and a plurality of servers and a plurality of clients can communicate via a communication line, characterized in that:

the server comprises a server and a control unit,

a project management server including at least a translation project storage unit that stores, in units of projects, an original sentence to be translated and a translation sentence corresponding to the original sentence, and a project search unit that searches the translation project storage unit; and

a memory management server including a common storage unit that is a storage unit that can be commonly used by the clients and that stores at least a text sentence and an approval translation corresponding to the text sentence approved by the approver, a common search unit that searches the common storage unit, and a common registration unit that registers the text sentence and the approval sentence in the common storage unit,

the client comprises a server and a client,

an applicant client operated by an applicant translator who presents a translation approval application of a specific original sentence to an approver; and

an approver client operated by the approver,

the application software management server comprises a server for managing the application software,

a retrieval requesting unit that requests the item retrieving unit of the item management server to perform retrieval or requests the common retrieving unit of the storage management server to perform retrieval using a retrieval request received from the client;

a search result transfer unit that transfers search result information received from the item management server or the memory management server to the client that received the search request;

a login requesting unit that transmits information requesting login of the original sentence and the approval sentence, which is received from the client, to a memory management server;

a transfer unit that transfers translation approval application information including at least a text sentence received from the applicant client to the approver client;

an approval application history storage unit for storing approval result information received from the approver client, the approval result information including at least approval permission information corresponding to the translation approval application information and an approval translation corresponding to the original sentence;

a notification storage unit that stores notification message information corresponding to the approval availability information;

a notification judgment unit that judges whether or not notification to clients other than the approver client is necessary and which notification message information stored in the storage unit should be notified to each client, based on the approval availability information; and

and a notification information generation unit configured to transmit notification information including the notification message information, the textual statement, and the approval translation corresponding to each of the 1 or more clients determined to need notification, to the 1 or more clients determined to need notification, according to the determination by the determination unit.

An application management server, characterized by:

the approver client includes a one-time approver client operated by a approver and an approver client operated by an approver,

the application management server is also provided with,

a confirmation delegation unit that transfers the approval translation received from the approver client to the primary approver client when the approval candidate translation received from the primary approver client is inconsistent with the approval translation received from the approver client.

[ industrial applicability ]

The translation support system according to the present invention is useful as a translation support system capable of efficiently updating an approved memory by notifying memory update even when a plurality of translators perform translation operations in parallel, and capable of sequentially checking whether translated sentences of the translated sentences are unstable.

[ description of symbols ]

100 network

110 client A

115 local memory

120 client B

125 local memory

130 client C

135 local memory

150 management server

151 shared memory

152 translation project file

153 history of approved applications

190 client Y

195 advisor Z

20 system bus

21 CPU

22 ROM

23 RAM

24 VGA

25 LAN adapter

26 keyboard

27 mouse

28 HDD

29 DVD-ROM drive

Claims

1. A server in which a server and a plurality of clients can communicate with each other via a communication line, the plurality of clients having storage means for storing at least an original sentence included in an original text to be translated and a translation corresponding to the original sentence, the server comprising:

a text storage unit for storing the text to be translated by each client;

a translation storage unit that stores translations received from the clients;

a translation search storage unit that searches the translation storage unit for a translation corresponding to the specified original, searches whether an approved translation corresponding to the newly stored specific original sentence exists in the translation corresponding to the specified original, and stores the specified original and the corresponding translation when an approved translation corresponding to the specified original does not exist;

2. The server according to claim 1,

the disclosed device is provided with: